From the Fields: Corn to combine

We still have corn to combine. We’re done with full-season beans. We started on corn then when the beans are ready — you have to go get them — so we switched to beans, got those done and are now back on corn. I still see a fair amount of corn out there yet. All the corn we have left to shell was later-planted stuff. The field that we finished yesterday (Oct. 14) was in that 19% to 21% range. It might be hard to find dry corn this year.

I don’t know if we will get a sixth cutting of alfalfa. I thought for sure we would this year but there has just been no rain to make it grow. We did get four-tenths of an inch of rain last week from the storms that moved through northern Illinois — we got the tail end of those. You certainly can’t tell by it now, but I would think that would be enough to get the wheat up. We’ve got all the wheat sowed and we just finished shelling a field of corn that we are going to put wheat in yet. Everything else was sowed that first and second week of October.