After months of delays, Litchville, North Dakota farmer Mark Formo is finally done with the 2019 corn harvest. “We didn’t get the 2019 corn harvested in the fall, because the fields were too wet. The corn was definitely too light. We were hoping to leave it stand and let Mother Nature dry things down,” says Formo. “The crop did dry down better than last fall, but it was a marginal decline. However, we weren’t planning on the late June rains, about six to seven inches. It made the fields horrible. I’ve heard some neighbors pulled some combines apart.” Formo didn’t get all of his corn harvested; 600 acres were plowed under last week. Formo says there’s still standing corn in other parts of North Dakota. “We drove some back roads west this past week and there’s a lot of corn fields standing, but many are getting destroyed. It’s not worth it. The corn is tipping over and the yield is lower. Farmers just want to get the 2019 corn harvest done.”
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