By Tim Krohn, Mankato Free Press

MANKATO — Stellar. Remarkable. Fantastic.

Those are the words farmers and analysts use to describe the fall harvest.

While the just completed corn and soybean harvest won’t likely set a record, it will rank among the best. And an unexpected surge in grain prices because of poorer harvests elsewhere in the Corn Belt are positioning grain farmers for a lucrative year.

Those high corn and soybean prices, though, are worrying hog producers who will pay more for feed just as the hog sector was beginning to right itself after two years of losses.

“It’s been a stellar fall,” said Al Brudelie, a farmer and head of the farm management program at South Central College.

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