YOUR TEXAS AGRICULTURE MINUTE

Some Texas corn farmers dealing with full grain bins, elevators

By Gary Joiner
Publisher

You might say it’s a regular bin-buster.

This year’s Central Texas corn crop is so large that some farmers are running out of storage.

Grain bins and elevators in the area are full. That leaves some farmers storing the crop on the ground.

It’s not ideal, but it’s the best option for some when a crop this size comes out of the field.

Farmers can thank early rainfall in the spring for the bumper crop. It set things up perfectly.

Corn yields are the best many in the area have seen in a long time.

Growers in other parts of the state hope to have similar success. State corn harvest is now just over 50%.

The overall condition of the Texas corn crop is much better than a year ago, and the storage situation proves it.

Texas corn growers plant more than 2 million acres annually. Harvest can run as late as November in our state.

Farmers already finished with harvesting corn now hope for new moisture to arrive this fall.

The preceding commentary is brought to you by Texas Farm Bureau, the “Voice of Texas Agriculture.” Called “Your Texas Agriculture Minute,” TFB will issue thought-provoking editorials each week—via print and audio—to spark understanding of agriculture in the Lone Star State and its impact on each and every Texan.

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