FARGO, N.D. – WDAY Radio’s Weather and Ag In Focus has completed their 2024 corn harvest!
The team of Chief Meteorologist and Ag Director Bridgette Readel worked with Averill, Minnesota farmers, Trygve Skolness, Parker Skolness and Justin Magnusson to plant, tend and harvest 20 acres of field corn. In a year full of too wet soil, a flash drought and a very long fall, the team brought in 194 bushels per acre on their 20 acre project.
The corn field is the second year WDAY Radio has chosen to custom farm in the area. Last year, they raised 20 acres of soybeans in North Dakota.
The goal of the project is to educate listeners and the public about all the steps involved in raising a crop.
“We live in an area of intense production agriculture but many people don’t know also about the crop in the area,” Readel said.
The team creates a series of videos to accompany the growing season. Everything is covered from selecting seed, securing financing, planting, weed control, harvest and grain storage with much more in between. Check out the videos on Weather and Ag InFocus YouTube and Facebook pages.
The project’s end goal is send the profits to a local charity. The recipient for the 2024 crop is Farm Rescue. The non-profit provides planting, haying, harvesting, commodity hauling and livestock feeding assistance to farm and ranch families that have experienced a major injury, illness or natural disaster. Dan Erdman and Tim Sullivan from Farm Rescue were presented with a check by the WDAY Radio team for $1,000. The money will be used for Operation Haylift which is assisting farmers and ranchers in Western North Dakota who lost feedstuff during the October wildfires.
