As Richland County prepares for sugarbeet harvest, which will begin in earnest next week, I am happy to report that we are all but finished with small grain harvest. There are still a few fields here and there that need to be ran but they are few and far between.
I guess I would classify the small grain harvest as good. Most of the reports that I have heard from wheat harvest tended to be that the yield was good to great but the protein was lacking. Of course this is not true everywhere as there were pockets that did get good protein numbers and then there were pockets that received hail just weeks before harvest and didn't yield much at all.
I would lump our barley harvest in the same boat as the wheat except that, early in the barley harvest I heard reports of many loads being rejected for malting because of sprout damage. I'm not sure about what percentage of the malting barley was rejected but it sounded at one point like it was a fairly substantial amount.
Most of the corn that was harvested for silage is out of the field as well. In a couple more weeks we will surely start harvesting corn for grain and I think that should yield fairly well also. It will be interesting to see what the few acres of soybeans that are in the county yield as well. I was really looking forward to seeing how the trials at the Eastern Agricultural Research Center yielded here in Sidney, but alas, that field was one of the few that got hailed out.
Most importantly, the harvest season has been a safe one so far as far as I know. Let's hope this continues through the beet campaign.
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