Farmers enjoy mild autumn weather

By STAN STRICKER ( Contact ) Monday, Nov. 3, 2008

Podcast Episode

WCLO's Stan Stricker reports on weather's role in this fall's harvest

The unseasonably warm weather is making the fall harvest easy on Rock county farmers.

Almost picture perfect is how UW-Extension Crops and Soils agent Jim Stute describes this fall's weather. Stute says about half the fall tillage and corn harvest are already complete. Unusually early season weather though is being blamed for mixed yields. Stute says corn and soybean yields are all across the board, with corn above average, and soybeans below. An additional advantage to a warm, dry autumn though, is farmers will need to spend less money drying their corn crop. It's doing that naturally in the field.

For the rest of us, these are just great days to do yard work, and prepare for the inevitable winter in Wisconsin.

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