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Harvest remains delayed in pockets
A wet end to harvest in Michigan has left some crops still standing in fields at the end of November.
Sixth-generation dairy and cash crop farmer Ben Wilson tells Brownfield a wet October left a few of his untiled corn and soybean fields with standing water.
“It’s been a long harvest,” he says. “The good part about the harvest in Michigan across the state, and here’s no different, there’s a lot of bushels to be had.”
The Carson City grower says combines were parked for at least three weeks last month which has likely set him back into next spring.
“When you have a late, wet fall, a lot of the things that you would have done—early tillage, cover crops, fertility programs—those types of things, a lot of that stuff just doesn’t get done,” he explains.
Wilson also works as an agronomist for Helena.
