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Kansas Farmers Struggling to Get Crops Harvested

(SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan.)

When we first interviewed Max Tjaden, in early September, he figured he was only days away from harvesting his corn and soybeans.

When we caught up with the Clearwater farmer on Saturday, two months later, he was still in the fields.

"Usually, the first week of October is the latest I ever pick corn and that's when we got started."

Things have just been too wet. Tjaden says every time he planned on cutting, it would rain again. And not only did the weather slow down Tjaden's harvest, it also put a damper on what he was hoping would be one of his best corn crops ever.

He says the longer it sits in the field, the more susceptible it is bugs and the normal wear and tear of nature.

"We had several really windy days and that's when it really started breaking over, and its had a month to finish off breaking off."

He says he got lucky with his soybean crop though, calling it phenomenal, despite the delay. Tjaden also expects his corn to still do fairly well, assuming he gets it out of the fields.

"My dad used to say it always gets done."