It has been a week of scouting. Storms that require replant on corn and beans. Between large hail, wind, tornadoes and over 5 inches of rain in places that washed the seed out of the furrow, you'll start seeing planters rolling again. Some fields are ready to spray post chemical on corn. We …
Keith Koerselman’s family farm in LeMars has been going strong for 150 years. He and wife Kristin, along with sons Keton and Kaleb, farm 500 acres in Plymouth County. Keith and his sons also custom farm and harvest. After the sons graduated from South Dakota State University, they expanded a…
I’m writing this on Sunday night after storms just rolled through. Some the area received from 0.3 to over 5 inches of rain on Saturday night. Now this evening we have received more heavy rain and hail as large as golf balls. Tornadoes reported and damage to the south and east of me around K…
Corn and soybean planting is as good as complete. A few guys may harvest rye in the next week or two and plant soybeans following. Corn emergence seems good other than some isolated acres that had a heavy rain — those guys have had the rotary hoes out trying to break the crust. Soybeans are …
We did get some much-needed rain since last week. Most of the area has seen from eight-tenths to just over 2 inches in isolated areas. That slowed planting progress, but by the end of the week farmers were able to get back in the fields. Corn planting is nearly complete, and if it’s dry this…
We had a good week of planting with the majority of the corn acres planted, and planters are rolling hard on soybeans also. Seedbed preparation has been good since we have been so dry. We really could use some rain. It seems like we’re missing the rain just like the meteorologists are missin…
We’ve got a big week coming up. Right now, I’ve got guys itching, ready to do something. They’re also pumping a lot of manure on. We’re waiting for ground conditions to start coming up beautiful. Stay warm, weather.
Keith Koerselman’s family farm in LeMars has been going strong for 150 years. He and wife Kristin, along with sons Keaton and Kaleb, farm 500 acres in Plymouth County. Keith and his sons also custom farm and harvest. After the sons graduated from South Dakota State University, they expanded …
A crop that showed amazing potential through the first half of the season turned challenging after large areas received extensive wind damage from a derecho on July 28. That event ushered in a lot of disease pressure, especially southern rust. Standability was a concern for most of the regio…
Not much change this week. Still a few scattered fields of corn to finish harvesting, but essentially done with corn harvest. Stalk bales getting made and gathered yet. Manure and fertilizer applications continue.
A lot of the elevators have been limiting their hours due to being short on space, which has slowed progress on the last few acres that need to be taken out. It appears only a very small percentage of acres remain to be harvested. Threat of rain in the upcoming week has spurred on a lot of t…
Rain delay in the early part of the week slowed harvest progress a little bit. It appears quite a few growers finished up by the end of the week. Still looks like minimal fall tillage has been done yet. A lot of cornstalk bales will need to be made in the upcoming weeks in between wet spells.
Another dry week helped harvest progress roll on. Yield reports continue to come in quite variable. Quite a few operations have finished harvesting already. Manure tanks and draglines have commenced fall applications. Forecast for a wet week ahead has spurred on a lot of corn stalk baling.
Soybean harvest has been pretty well completed in the area this last week. Corn dried down several points with the hot weather we’ve had. There were a few scattered showers through the area over the weekend but nothing that will delay harvest progress. A cooler week ahead and very little pre…
Pretty good progress on soybean harvest in the area this last week. Yield reports are coming in mixed. Sounds like most guys are a little disappointed, thinking they would have produced a few more bushels than they did. Have seen a few combines poking into corn, but most of the corn is on th…
There wasn't much done last week with the rain showers we had. I heard they had 1 inch of rain overnight in Sioux Center with possible hail. In my immediate area, I think people will really get going this week. A few are grinding corn.
Another nice week, but not a lot of crop progress outside of the guys chopping silage. I have heard a few reports of guys starting some soybeans in the area, but I assume most of the soybeans will not be fit until later this week or the following week. We received three-fourths of an inch of…
A lot of operations have started cutting silage. Mixed reports of moisture and yields. Downed corn from the late July wind storm has been a significant problem through Sioux and Lyon counties. Soybeans are slow to turn this year. A warm week ahead is sure to help speed that along. Not widesp…
We had a few scattered showers through the area again this week. Choppers have started. Local co-ops have reported average silage moisture samples in the low 70s. More beans turning, but I would expect it to be about three weeks before that harvest starts on a large scale.
Disease pressure continues to spread in both corn and soybeans, but at this stage of maturity most growers aren't trying to manage it any longer. Some of the early varieties of soybeans that were planted early are starting to show signs of turning. I would expect to see some corn getting cho…
We had about 2 inches of rain overnight into Monday morning. The crops have not changed much over the past week. We still have a few weeks until we’re able to chop silage. We’re seeing more SDS in the soybeans. I have been hearing a few reports of diseases in corn. That’s even in the fields …
We had a fairly uneventful week. Most of the spraying seems to have wrapped up for the season in both corn and soybeans. SDS continues to show up in soybeans. Leaf diseases are quite prevalent in some cornfields that didn't get sprayed.
A storm came through the area on Monday night (July 28) with derecho-level winds that also dumped a lot of rain and hail in some areas. There is fairly wide-spread damage to crops and buildings. In addition to the wind damage, a fair amount of sudden death syndrome has popped up in soybeans.…
Same story every week — caught a couple nice rain showers this week in between the hot spells. Sprayers continued to stay busy in the corn all week. Most of the soybeans are fully into R3 stage, so spraying has started there as well. Crops continue to look excellent.
It’s sounding like a broken record, but we got a couple more timely rains this past week, with a little more falling to the south. It was well needed for the hot week that is in the forecast. Pretty much all the corn has tasseled. We are starting to see a few fields that are brown silked. Th…
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