A Westphalia farm adds another 1,000 bushels to a mountain of corn that already contains 75,000 bushels at D&M Community Grain L.C. in Zabcikville on Friday. “All three of our storage bins are already full,” Daniel Meyer, manager, said. “We never started harvesting this early in the year before. We usually start July 15, but we had farms wanting us to take it as early as July 4 this year because of the dry weather. They want to get it off the stalks and into storage as soon as possible. A big wind or rain at this time could have wiped out an entire crop, flattening a field or damaging the crop.” Windstorms can break the corn-laden stalks, making it impossible to harvest, while rain can promote growth of mold, rendering the crop useless. Jimmy Meyer of Meyer Farms in Westphalia said, “They always say, if you got a Juneteenth rain, you’d be set. We didn’t get it, but if we did, it would have been a bumper year.” (Scott Gaulin/Telegram)