The reasoning for the delay:
"Periodic rains, some shortage of grain drying capacity on farms and at grain elevators, and spot shortages of propane for drying, have prevented us from closing the books on the 2009 harvest," he adds. "But for many farmers at least the end is now in sight. Hopefully, those who spent part of Thanksgiving in a combine will not have to spend Christmas worrying about crops still in the field."
It's been a very mild and sporadic fall winter, atleast in Wisco where I live. An abnormally cold summer followed by a 3 week drought in September and a wet, mild October, November has kept corn growth down and has post-poned harvesting. Farmers should consider themselves lucky that they haven't even seen the first snow of the year yet. Snowfall in the Madison-area has been above normal the past two years. I would expend this trend to get worse as climate change continues. Then we're all really f-ed.
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