Corn Harvest is Not Done
I was traveling over the last couple of days to the Mid-West. I spent part of my time driving from Kansas City to Davenport, Iowa and then from there to Hannibal, Missouri and then back to Kansas City.
While on this trip, I noticed that there was still a lot of corn that was not harvested. Most of the farms that I saw with un-harvested corn appeared to be smaller farms since the combines were much older and only had a 4 or 6 row head. With the weather delays, this does make sense to me since the newer larger combines can harvest a lot more acres in a day than the older machines.
This seems to confirm the recent USDA report that indicated the corn harvest was only 88% complete. This means that about 12% of the crop still needs to be harvested.
I am guessing that harvest will not get finished until sometime in early 2010. I have a feeling this will go down as one of the latest harvests ever.
Paul Neiffer is a certified public accountant and business advisor specializing in income taxation, accounting services, and succession planning for farmers and agribusiness processors. Paul is a principal with CliftonLarsonAllen in Walla Walla, Washington, as well as a regular speaker at national conferences and contributor at agweb.com. Raised on a farm in central Washington, he has been immersed in the ag industry his entire life, including the last 30 years professionally. Paul and his wife purchase an 180 acre ranch in 2016 and enjoy keeping it full of animals.
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