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Despite low expectations for soybeans, Kansas farmer waiting for harvest start
Northeast Kansas farmer Glenn Brunkow says timely rains during the growing season have delayed the start of harvest a couple of weeks. “We’ve had earlier years but usually in an earlier year it’s because we’ve burned up in drought,” he says. “I’ll take a year like this where we’ve had a little more moisture and have delayed harvest.”
He tells Brownfield he expects soybeans to have an average yield. “They’re just starting to dry down now, but they’ve dried down in the last week,” Brunkhow says. “We’ve been so dry and I think it’s going to affect the yield. The beans haven’t filled quite as well as I’d hope. There aren’t as many pods on the plants as I’d hoped.”
But, Brunkow says he’s pleased with his corn crop. “The ears I’ve pulled have looked really good and what I’ve heard from neighbors who’ve picked corn say it’s not a bin buster but it is above average.”
Glenn also raises lambs and a cow/calf herd between Manhattan and Topeka.