A mostly average 2026 harvest for Kankakee County farmers

The corn crop for those driving past Dave Wulff’s farm along Splear Road in east Kankakee looked more than good.But tall, green stalks do not always mean robust ears of corn.Once the combine began chewing through those towering corn stalks, the grain spilling into the high above storage tank told a much different story.What was believed to be a variety of weather factors dealt this Kankakee farmer a bleak, but not unanticipated story.Wulff walked and surveyed his corn field during the late summer. He knew what was happening. The roaring combine only confirmed it.“I’m very disappointed.” He said the field produced a corn yield in the neighborhood of 60-plus bushels per acre.In Kankakee County, corn yields most often range in the 200-plus-bushels per acre range.A harvest of 60 bushels was shocking – and depressing.Wulff had his crop insurance representative survey the field. He said the adjuster relayed a simple message to him.“He said, ‘This year nothing makes sense,’” Wulff reported.Re