It is a wet, slow harvest season. “If you add up the combine hours that you’d normally have, you’d be done twice with small grains and here we are about half done,” said Reed Ihry of Ihry Insurance. Quality issues, including sprouting and falling numbers, have become commonplace. The corn and soybean crops are behind the normal pace and maturity is a concern. “We have some guys with a soybean crop that will make it and some that aren’t. We have some guys with corn that will make it and some that aren’t. We have a lot of enterprise units to be looking at so they need to keep in touch with us about their guarantees. For wheat, as an example, there has been a 12.5 percent price drop so the guarantees have gone up a bit.”
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