Saturday, August 11, 2012

No Joke: Harvesting The First Week Of August


For Dorchester farmer Shelley Bruha, this week brought a first for him after decades of farming.  Bruha, along with several other area producers, were busy harvesting corn the first full week of August. 

The Lincoln Journal Star features Bruha's experience in a story it has published in today's newspaper.  Click here to read the story.

How bad is the drought?  According to the story, Bruha's "withered, unirrigated field that normally would produce 120 to 130 bushels per acre managed 40 in the driest Nebraska growing season in decades. 'I’ve never heard of such a thing,' the 69-year-old Bruha responded when asked about his earliest harvest ever."

"Sometimes, the first part of September, we might have harvested,' he added, 'but never the first part of August. Nobody has, I don’t believe.'"

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