It's all hands on deck, all farm equipment and systems are a go at Brock Family Farms in Stilesville.

"We've been going pretty hard at it for 10 days or so," shared Katie Brock Pennington.

Like farm families across Indiana, the Brock family is in the thick of harvest season.

For some soybean farmers, harvest 2025 got started a little later than usual.

"Usually we would be getting started in mid-September," Brock Pennington continued.

Where does that leave the family?

"Behind what we would normally be," she stated.

What caused a later harvest this year? I reached out to Shaun Casteel, the Extension Soybean Specialist for Indiana.

"It's a good crop, but not a great crop," Casteel shared. "It's a season of haves and have-nots."

For many farmers, planting was delayed because of this s

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