The unofficial, non-government harvest progress number for west-central Indiana is 99 percent complete. The number comes from Eric Wornhoff, sales agronomist with Channel in our final Channel Seed harvest update. He says there is still plenty of activity in those fields.
“There’s a lot of field work getting done, fertilizer getting spread, anhydrous out there, guys are getting equipment cleaned up and put away before our weather turns on us here,” he explained. “This harvest has been fast and furious. We haven’t slowed down since we started in early September. Performance across the board in west-central Indiana has been pretty stable. There have been some field records attained with corn and soybeans this year.”
At the same time, yields varied widely across the territory.
“Soybean yields this year, I’ve seen from roughly 44, 45 bushel all the way up to 90 and a little bit higher than that. So, we’ve seen a wide range, and most can be attributed to soil conditions, locations where there are certain types of stress factors that were above and beyond what we would normally expect.”
Wornhoff was very happy with results from Channel corn fields.
“Corn has been phenomenal,” he told HAT. “We’ve seen 185 on the very low, on some of the toughest acres, and we’ve seen some records attained of well above 270, 285 on fields that would normally have an APH of 250, 252. Somewhere somehow the good Lord above gave us another 25 to 30 bushels in some of those areas, and timing was critical.”
A well-managed field in 2025 was a difference-maker, including for those who were proactive fighting tar spot.
“The guys that sprayed early before everything was brown-silked got the exponential yield punch from the Delaro Complete that we expect to see and we planned on for many, many years.”
Hear Wornhoff’s full HAT and Channel Seed harvest update:
