Mother Nature Slows Corn Drydown

The corn harvest has been a bit of a slog for Mike Appert at Hazelton, North Dakota. The corn has been wet. Fields are plenty wet, too. “There’s a lot of water in the fields; we’re getting stuck with the grain cart and the combine, too.” Appert says the early September frost hurt the local crop, especially on the low ground. Storage is at a premium. “People are stuffing everything they got, every bin, and building is going to be full of grain. People are a little reluctant to haul it in and give it way if they don’t have to, but you do see some grain being moved to the market just because people are out of storage room.”