Tom Hoverstad On AM Minnesota Today

Tom Hoverstad who is a scientist at the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca will be my guest on AM Minnesota today. Someone from the Just Food Co-op in Northfield was scheduled but something came up so we will schedule it for a later date. It has become a tradition that Hoverstad joins me at the end of harvest to discuss the growing season. We talk about the weather, production issues like insects, weeds and other issues that affected yields.

We will get more details this morning, but thinking back it was almost an ideal growing season. We got the crop planted in a timely fashion with very good soil conditions. We received timely rains, plenty of warm sunshine, a late frost and an ideal harvest season. On top of all that, because October was so nice, the corn dried down naturally in the field. That made for a rapid harvest with very little propane needed to dry the corn.