May 11, 2025
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Farmers put finishing touches on 2023 harvest

By Caleb Nelson
David Schwartz, who farms with his father Lance as L&D Schwartz Farms, LLC, combines in a corn field northwest of Greenfield on Friday. The Schwartzes, who have planted a cover crop of rye on this ground, say the corn crop this year has performed extremely well.

David Schwartz, who farms with his father Lance as L&D Schwartz Farms, LLC, combines in a corn field northwest of Greenfield on Friday. The Schwartzes, who have planted a cover crop of rye on this ground, say the corn crop this year has performed extremely well. (Caleb Nelson)

Farmers out last week putting the last, finishing touches on the 2023 corn harvest remarked this year’s crop was extremely good.

Lance and David Schwartz, who farm as L&D Schwartz Farms, LLC, said the reporter should take his camera and photograph the combine’s in-cab monitor, because the bushels per acre reading is so good.

“With the little rainfall we had, the kind of yields we can produce is just crazy,” David said. “We went two months without rain here and still have 235, 240-bushel an acre corn, and there are 300-bushel spots too. We get down toward Osceola, and that’s tougher country, but it was still well over 200 bushels there.”

Caleb Nelson

Caleb Nelson

Caleb Nelson has served as News Editor of the Adair County Free Press and Fontanelle Observer since Oct. 2017. He and his wife Kilee live in Greenfield. In Greenfield and the greater Adair County area, he values the opportunity to tell peoples' stories, enjoys playing guitar, following all levels of sports, and being a part of his local church.