Wet Corn Slows South Central ND Harvest

Corn harvest in south central North Dakota is progressing; however, the pace has slowed. “This corn crop is good, but it’s wet, so you’re only as fast as the dryer,” said Mike Brandenburg, who farms at Edgeley. “The dryer is kind of the limiting factor.”  Brandenburg says farmers are working field by field, filling wet bins, letting grain dry, and then transporting it to elevators and ethanol plants. “You just sit in line a lot. That is what we do. Elevators are getting full and starting to pile now, too.”