Starting at dark and ending at dark,” is how Kaleb Ellis describes the ongoing 2025 harvest. He said there are quite a few soybeans left to go in our area of western Wisconsin. “It’s only going to get harder and harder,” he said. “There are not perfect conditions anymore. The days are shorter, and it stays more damp and harder to get them dried out, so that they will feed through the combine and thresh nice.” They started corn harvest on their ridge land, where they had sprayed with fungicide. “That Southern Rust cooked some of the older hybrids,” he said. Field averages were 170 bushels to the acre instead of 200-plus. He thinks the corn forecast for a bumper harvest is not there. Anthracnose, another fungal disease, is also a problem he spotted in some of his fields. Moving to his grandparents’ farm, he saw much-better yields with a newer hybrid of corn; yields were better, to as much as 190 bushels per acre. The corn is running dry, with moisture between 16 percent and 18 perc
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