GOSHEN ― Problems with this year's growing season may hurt some farmers. The cool summer and rainy fall have put them two to three weeks behind schedule.

“I think we're pretty much all in the same boat,” said Mike Neff of rural Goshen.

Neff and many farmers in our area can only watch and wait. Their corn crops may look ready for harvest, but our cool summer and fall has left them way too wet.

“Most everything, harvest wise, is a good three weeks late,” said Neff. “I was fortunate enough to get my beans finished up, but the corn is just extremely wet and we don't know if there is too much hope of it drying down.”

Erica Soumare is a county agriculture agent.

“It is a perfect opportunity for mold to grow ― ear rot that happens on the corn," she said.

But it has to dry somehow, so if Mother Nature's not doing it, then it is up to area farmers.

“So we're looking at, you know, high drying charges,” said Neff, “and possibly a poor quality of corn by shelling the corn at a wetter moisture than we want to, and the outlook isn’t too good for the rest of the fall.”

For some in the farming community, it has becomes a roll of the dice to decide whether to harvest wet seed corn now, or hope and pray that it becomes drier in the next few weeks.

If farmers take seed corn to the grain elevator and it is too wet, they do run the risk of getting docked in pay, and losing money on their crop.