December 20, 2024

From the Fields: Better than last year

By Berkeley Boehne
Berkeley Boehne checks on the pigs in his feeder to finish barn on his farm in DeKalb County in north-central Illinois. He custom feeds hogs for local people on two sites that together have the capacity for 10,000 pigs.

Berkeley Boehne checks on the pigs in his feeder to finish barn on his farm in DeKalb County in north-central Illinois. He custom feeds hogs for local people on two sites that together have the capacity for 10,000 pigs. (AgriNews photo/Martha Blum)

I think we’re going to be better than last year for corn and soybean yields. I don’t have super high expectations, but it’s going to be good.

Some of the hills on both corn and beans got dinged pretty hard from the heat and two weeks of dryness. That doesn’t add up to a lot, but it does bring the average down a little bit.

The temperatures are cooling down so that will help slow maturity. Guys don’t like to pay for drying corn, but it works really good for us to start harvesting corn when it’s at 22% to 25% moisture.

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Berkeley Boehne

Berkeley Boehne

Shabbona, Ill.