Northwest Iowa might be the part of the state furthest along with harvest.
Tim Berkland is the agronomy manager with New Century FS in Ruthven and says harvest is in the final stages.
“Harvest overall compared to the rest of the state went really well up here. We were actually a little bit drier, got in (and) got going. Missed some of those rainfalls, so I would say probably 90 percent of the crop’s out up here. And overall, yields were pretty good.”
He tells Brownfield recent rain has slowed farmers down.
“But again, all in all I think growers up here got a lot harvested. Obviously a lot of tillage, fall dry (fertilizer) and manure applications to go yet. But honestly, you look at the next 10 days and it looks dry, so hopefully we can get dried out and get after it again.”
Brownfield spoke to Berkland Friday during a Bayer announcement held at New Century FS in Ruthven.
