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It was a long harvest season across the state. Here’s a look back at harvest 2021.

Mindy Ward, Editor, Missouri Ruralist

November 29, 2021

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While harvest is nearing completion, for many Missouri farmers it has been a long one. Farmers in the Missouri River bottoms started corn harvest in early September. Travel north to Paris, and both corn and soybeans were still standing in fields in early November.

Moisture prevented some farmers from harvesting fields. However, others may not be wanting to spend money on corn drydown costs and are waiting it out, allowing the crop to remain in the field.

According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 95% of the state’s corn harvest was complete by mid-November, and 81% of soybean harvest was complete.

In 2020, Missouri farmers reported harvesting 561 million bushels of corn and 296 million bushels of soybeans. USDA-NASS is currently calling farmers for final year-end harvest statistics.

Click through the photo gallery for more photos and information on this year’s harvest season.

About the Author(s)

Mindy Ward

Editor, Missouri Ruralist

Mindy resides on a small farm just outside of Holstein, Mo, about 80 miles southwest of St. Louis.

After graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural journalism, she worked briefly at a public relations firm in Kansas City. Her husband’s career led the couple north to Minnesota.

There, she reported on large-scale production of corn, soybeans, sugar beets, and dairy, as well as, biofuels for The Land. After 10 years, the couple returned to Missouri and she began covering agriculture in the Show-Me State.

“In all my 15 years of writing about agriculture, I have found some of the most progressive thinkers are farmers,” she says. “They are constantly searching for ways to do more with less, improve their land and leave their legacy to the next generation.”

Mindy and her husband, Stacy, together with their daughters, Elisa and Cassidy, operate Showtime Farms in southern Warren County. The family spends a great deal of time caring for and showing Dorset, Oxford and crossbred sheep.

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