Although some farm equipment has been parked lately due to cool rainy weather, many local farmers are back in the fields this week harvesting corn or finishing soybeans.

Ed Peters of Hennervic Farms in Randolph says they just began harvesting corn in the St. Malo area yesterday and expect yields to be between about 115 and 120 bushels per acre. He adds like other crops, quality and quantity is all over the map this year.

"Some of our stuff that was in the more droughted areas, we've actually given away for silage because the yield was rather low and there was a demand for feed," notes Peters, "we're now harvesting in an area that had a medium amount of rain and the crop there will be average to just below average I would say."

Peters says because harvest was so early this year, the recent weather has not put them far behind schedule. He notes it actually helped for some of their other fall work.

For those of us who put in some winter wheat, it's a very nice rain," says Peters noting they planted 600 acres of winter wheat at the beginning of September. "That's a had a really nice start and anytime you've had a dry year, it's nice to have some rain to renew your base for next year."