Corn and soybeans are officially in the bin for the vast majority of Indiana farmers, but some are still rolling on.
In Northwest Indiana’s LaPorte County, Denise Scarborough reports that combine engines have officially shut off after a wild, weather-whipped growing season.
“We were able to finish picking corn this last week, and so everything is wrapped up on our farm,” Scarborough says. “Our wheat is in, we have all our cover crops in. They are looking to do a little bit of fall tillage still, but we had some rain this week, so that’s kept us out of the field—a lot of cleaning up equipment.”
Looking back at 2026, Scarborough says the season tested every corner of their operation.
“In Northwest Indiana, we had a very interesting year this year,” Scarborough notes. “Basically, we survived three droughts and three floods, all in one growing season. The word I would use to sum up this harvest season is just inconsistency. Our yields: some were way below average, and we had some that were surprisingly above average. But all in all, we made it through another successful growing season safely on our farm, and we hope you did too.”
Across the state in Allen County, the story is far different. While soybean harvest has wrapped up cleanly across Northeast Indiana, Roger Hadley reports that corn harvest is just getting off the ground following late spring planting delays.
“Soybean harvest has pretty much been totally completed in the area. You’ve got to look really hard to find any soybeans out in the field,” Hadley says. “But corn harvest is a whole other story. This last week, corn harvest basically just got started. A few folks that had got in early and planted corn when it was questionable on field conditions early May are done with their few fields that was planted. But many other farmers are just getting started, just poking into fields, finding corn much wetter than they had hoped to find, and harvest is plugging along pretty slowly.”
Hadley estimates that Allen County corn harvest is “lucky to reach the 20% mark at this stage,” with many producers holding out for field drying.
“A lot of folks are looking at the weather forecast and seeing that we’ve got a week or so of good weather ahead, and apparently waiting on that and waiting on and hoping for some drying, which is going to be very slow with these kind of weather conditions, weather temperatures,” Hadley adds. “That looks to be the case, corn seems to be standing well.”
From a yield perspective, Hadley notes that early numbers in Southeast Allen County are holding up well, with customer reports ranging between 200 and 225 bushels per acre at 18% to 22% moisture.
