Farmers are usually finishing their harvest this time of year. But, a new report from the United States Department of Agriculture indicates only about half of Indiana corn and one third of Indiana soybeans are harvested.
Delayed planting due to flooding this spring forced farmers into a later harvest.
Don Villwock is a corn and soybean farmer in Knox County. He says the threat of snow and colder temperatures will decrease yields even more.
“You lose more to harvest loss,” Villwock says. “You can lose an additional five, ten, twenty percent as corn in particular—the wind blows corn starts to fall down.”
Villwock says he’s renting another combine in hopes of getting his crops in faster.
