Wappel Grain and Herb, LLC

05/07/2026

Sunflower planting is a go. We are producing hundreds of acres of sunflowers this year. They will be scattered from North Judson to South of San Pierre. The seed will be used for bird food. Enjoy the flowers this summer!

04/09/2026

The spring mint planting season has come to a close. We had a great start and were a half a day from finishing when the monsoons hit. But we got out there today and finished up!
Potato planting also got going before the rains, and after a long pause, started back up yesterday.

10/30/2025

What’s old is new again. Grain sorghum also know as milo, hasn’t been grown on our farm for 25 years. It looks similar to corn until the top pops and grain forms instead of a tassel. Milo is the small round redish grain found in many bird seed mixes. That’s where ours will end up. Milo harvest should finish up this week.

10/18/2025

The push was on all week to get as much low ground muck corn out as we could with the heavy rains in the forecast. A few hours left! Pictures were captured by Larry Sr who’s running a semi today.

10/03/2025

Thanks to the local volunteers at Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department Knox, IN for helping us out last night. The operator located burning bean dust throughout the side of the combine. Luckily no extensive damage this time. Emissions control systems on modern engines get so hot, they can start lingering crop dust on fire. That was believed to the culprit. We carry “water can” and dry chemical fire extinguishers on the combines, but they were quickly depleted. A few days ago a sticky brake on a different machine started crop dust on fire and burned up a large wiring harness. Fire danger when it’s this dry is a real concern to harvest crews.

07/31/2025

The pollinators love a blooming peppermint field. You can hear the field buzzing with honey bees.

07/24/2025

When you are used to wearing football pads, a walk in a mint field is nice and cool. 😎

The team that w**ds mint together wins together🏆. It’s been a long and hot summer. These young men have worked really hard to get stronger and compete. A lot of kids would be putting it into cruise control to wind down the month of July before full pads start in August, but not these kids from North Judson. They’re up at the crack of dawn to help w**d mint for Wappel Farms 🚜. Hydrate up fellas we got middle school camp tonight! 🏈 Big shout out to Eric Wappel for helping some kids make some cash 💰.

06/01/2025

You may have checked out the green paper already but did you see what's on the schedule Saturday June 14 @ 3PM?

THE MINT FARM TOUR IS BACK!!!

It's a busy time of year for our farmers but they've generously offered to show you some of the inner workings of a mint farm. Tour is at 3PM ONLY. So don't be late!

Wappel Grain and Herb
8835 W State Road 10
North Judson

Here's a quick read about mint farming in the area:
https://indianahumanities.org/2011/09/28/larry-wappel-wappel-farms-mint-in-the-air/

04/15/2025

Happy to provide the Pinney Purdue AG Center with a mint planter and mint roots to do some research.

04/09/2025

Excited for another awesome Mint Festival!

Spotlighting another platinum sponsor who always supports the Mint Fest! Thank you to Wappel Grain and Herb for all your do!

03/28/2025

The spring mint planting season is now done. 90 wagons loads of mint roots were dug taking a 6’ wide swath at 2 mph. 130 planter loads were filled, planting a 12’ swath at 5.5 mph. Mint takes much more time and labor to plant an acre than corn or soybeans.

We are glad to bring this planting season to an end and turn our focus to the grain side of things!