OMAHA (DTN) -- A wet fall, wet corn and a late harvest are ingredients for fall compaction as growers rush to get the crop out, attempt normal fall tillage and apply fertilizer.

"Many farmers will be unable to get back in their fields after harvest," said Randall Reeder, an Ohio State University Extension agricultural engineer. "Many fields have ruts and severe compaction issues."

Mark Hanna with the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, and Madhi Al-Kaisi with the Department of Agronomy at Iowa State University reviewed the risks of harvesting under wet soil conditions in a recent university extension news ...