Iowa Harvest Update
Posted: November 2, 2009
Iowa ag secretary and former National Corn Growers Association president Bill Northey is providing harvest updates on Twitter and Facebook.
Friday he wrote on his Facebook page, “Slowest sb harvest in Iowa since 1985 & 1960. Slowest corn harvest since 1967. Farming chged a lot in 40 yrs. Still can’t harvest in rain.” In a later comment to the same post he added, “Corn I combined Wedn was 35%. It was 102 day corn planted April 24. Had plenty of time, just not enough heat. 48.5# test weight, though that will come up when it gets down to 15% – after lots of LP gas and electricity.”
Just interesting that here is a VERY busy man – state government official and farmer – who takes time to update his 1,740 friends on Facebook page and tweet. Social media on the farm is a beautiful thing!
