TO HARVEST OR NOT TO HARVEST, THAT IS THE QUESTION

Oct 23, 2019 at 09:21 AM CST - 1
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” That’s the famous beginning of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. It could just as well be the beginning of the tale of two crops in 2019, first the one we expected when the year began. Then there was the crop we expected in June, when very little was planted and it looked like it would be a disaster. Well, we did lose 20 million acres (give or take a few million) to prevented planting. But all of a sudden, it seemed the crop got nearly perfect weather to push through the year, and all was well again.

Oct 23, 2019 at 09:21 AM CST

- 1

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” That’s the famous beginning of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. It could just as well be the beginning of the tale of two crops in 2019, first the one we expected when the year began. Then there was the crop we expected in June, when very little was planted and it looked like it would be a disaster. Well, we did lose 20 million acres (give or take a few million) to prevented planting. But all of a sudden, it seemed the crop got nearly perfect weather to push through the year, and all was well again.