Indiana harvest took a nice jump in the last week as corn moves to 16 percent compete and soybeans 24 percent finished. In a Channel Seed harvest update, Channel sales agronomist Chris Brazel covering the northeast quarter of Indiana says bean harvest pace is very rapid.
“The unusually high temperatures, dry weather, it’s accelerated pretty rapidly, almost to a point where on our bean harvest, boy we could use a spot of moisture here just for nothing else for everybody to catch their breath and maybe take a nap and catch back up on a little bit of sleep and get some maintenance done,” he told HAT. “But more importantly get some moisture back up into these beans. We could use a little more moisture with the dry, warm weather that we’re experiencing right now.”
And although there is variability and there are exceptions, much of the bean crop coming off has been good in quality and size.
“I know early on we were fighting a little bit of those lima beans. That seems to kind of subsided and everybody’s kind of getting pretty good quality other than moisture is a little lower than ideal, but everything else looks pretty good. Bean size has been okay. We’re not cutting marbles, but I would call it above average bean size, especially where we’re getting those upper 70’s to mid-80’s on yields.”
Bean yields range from the mid-40’s to the mid-70’s and even low 80’s in some cases. Higher moisture in corn is keeping the focus on bean harvest for now.
“Corn moisture is kind of hanging in there pretty good,” Brazel said. “We’re still seeing a lot of corn moisture in the mid-20’s, so guys haven’t really accelerated into corn harvest that much yet, but talking with some of our guys that have pulled off some of our Channel genetics, they have been really happy with what we’re seeing, and we’re seeing some stuff on dry land in the mid two (hundreds) which is really encouraging. We’re going to need those yields to kind of help combat where our commodity prices are.”
National corn harvest progress is at 18% and soybean progress is now 19%.
Hear all of Brazel’s observations in the full HAT and Channel Seed harvest update:
