While some crops do remain in the fields in Manitowoc County, Ag Educator Angie Ulness says the weather has been rather cooperative for farmers.
However, even with Mother Nature on their side, Ulness said some of the corn is not playing ball.
“There’s some corn that is being stubborn and not wanting to dry down,” she explained. “When you take it into the coop or somewhere to dry on the farm, you want the moisture to be at 15%. This year, the corn crop is drying pretty slow. There’s a lot of fields that are still in the 20s.”
Ulness said this issue is hitting farmers in their checkbooks.
“With the higher prices to get that corn dried down at the elevator, it’s taking some profit, or some margin, out of the corn that farmers are trying to sell,” she revealed.”
However on the positive side, Ulness says that commodity prices are remaining pretty steady.
The all-hay price in Wisconsin is at $144 per ton through September, the oat price per bushel is at $4.53, soybeans are at $14.10 per bushel, and corn is at $7.12 per bushel on average.
