Bountiful harvest

Thursday, October 21, 2010

An exceptional corn harvest in Southwest Nebraska forces Frenchman Valley Coop of McCook to use land south of Gerhold's Concrete in McCook, Nebraska, for temporary storage. Frenchman Valley manager Mark Friehe said that due to exceptional back-to-back crops of both wheat and corn, the company has had to resort to extra storage areas for corn. Friehe said between the McCook, Perry and Culbertson plants they have received nearly 4 million bushels so far with 80 percent of the area's corn harvested. He expects dryland corn to be producing 140-170 bushels per acre, compared to 200-250 for corn grown on irrigated land.

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