Pretty quiet week here. Received much-needed rain that will put test weight on the corn and fill and set more pods on beans. Alfalfa is growing back good.
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…
We are dry. Some areas the corn is starting to fire up. Beans are holding in pretty good. Pastures are drying up. Fungicide spraying is complete. Very little disease pressure occurring. Corn is denting, and I’m sure silage chopping will be starting soon where it’s really dry. Let it rain!
The heat broke on Thursday. We did catch two- to nine-tenths of rain in scattered areas. Corn is moving along fast, and overall crops are looking good. I was busy at our county fair, which ended Sunday, and we had huge crowds!
Hot week. We did get 1.3 inches of rain at the end of the week. Fungicide nearly completed. Hopefully cools off this next week. Crop scouting will be on hold as it is the “Best Five Days of Summer” next week — the Plymouth County Fair starts Wednesday. I’m on the fair board, so I’ll be at th…
It’s been a hot week here. We’re very lucky to get the dew in the morning for the crops. Corn and soybeans are progressing well. We will need a rain soon.
The heat is on! Overall the crops look good. Corn is tasseling, beans are looking good. Second-crop alfalfa is put up. We could use a rain during this extended heat period we are in, and hopefully it cools off next week. The planes and drones are getting fired up and fungicide season begins.…
Change of weather this last week. We finally got some much-needed rain—4 to 5 inches or more in a lot of the area, along with wind and storms. The heat is on along with humidity. The corn is starting to tassel, and we’ll get ready to spray fungicides.
Not much of a change here — still dry. We did have some scattered showers earlier this week, from two-tenths to isolated six-tenths in some areas. Things will get interesting next week if the heat is turned on along with wind and little to no precipitation in the forecast. Scouting for rootw…
We are dry. I'm starting to think that when the weather apps and meteorologists are predicting a 75-100% chance of rain it means just the opposite around here. The only place it’s wet is at the lakes. It would be nice if we could catch some nice precipitation soon.
Sprayers had a busy week. A lot of bean spraying is finished and will get done the first part of next week. Hopefully the beans grow and canopy so we don’t have the third flush of weeds to spray later. It seems like our area is missing the rains. We are dry. Hopefully we’ll catch some rain t…
Good growing conditions this week. The corn found the fertilizer, and it's off to the races now. Beans are starting to grow after we got some heat. Some areas caught some rain, but we really are dry. Most of the alfalfa is cut and either baled or will be this week. Corn post spraying is fini…
Caught some rain Memorial Day weekend and then we finally got our heat that the corn needed. Crops are growing great. Soybeans are looking a lot better. Some areas have caught some rain here over the last week again, but for the most part we’re on the drier side. Most of the corn post-sprayi…
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 …
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.
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