Corn harvest looks strong; soybeans not so much

The corn harvest has picked up considerably this week, with strong yields reported. The developing soybean fields, however, may be "all over the place," one grain elevator operator noted.
Some corn is stored outdoors at Humboldt to supplement large storage tanks that loom over the elevator property. A tarp was flung over the corn earlier this week, leaving it looking a bit like a huge cupcake. Photo by Bob Johnson
by Bob Johnson – The Iola Register
Published: August 27, 2026
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The corn harvest has picked up considerably this week, with strong yields reported. The developing soybean fields, however, may be “all over the place,” one grain elevator operator noted.

Though prolonged hot and dry weather have had a visible effect on the area’s two main cash crops, corn and soybeans, local farmers are saying the corn harvest is going well to exceptionally well, said Gary Beachner, Parsons, owner of Beachner Grain, which has an elevator and storage tanks in Humboldt.

“The corn harvest has picked up considerably the last four or five days,” Beachner said Tuesday. Corn currently fetches $4.50 a bushel.

“Test weights and moisture content of corn have been really good,” Beacher said, one silver lining of the otherwise abominable weather. 

Bob Johnson – The Iola Register

Bob Johnson has been with the Register since July 1964, including the past few years in a less demanding role. He continues to write his Saturday column at Week’s End, which began in 1972, and occasionally other things. During Bob’s tenure he has written sports, features, general news and editorials. He often has supported his writing with photographs. His institutional knowledge of what occurred in the past is a valuable asset for the Register and its reporters’ mission to tell the story of Iola and Allen County.

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