The End of the Road: The long, cool, wet 2019 farm season draws to a close

Columbia City, IN. — On a cool, breezy October day, Tom Richards walked into a cornfield at the Northeast Purdue Ag Center (NEPAC), armed with a stick, precisely 17 feet long. Truth be told, it was two sticks joined in the middle by a wrap of duct tape. Total value of the stick, duct tape included, was about a buck.