Harvest is rolling across the Upper Midwest


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Harvest is rolling across the Upper Midwest

Harvest progress varies across the Upper Midwest.

Peterson Farms Seed agronomy lead Rick Swenson says in the company’s footprint of the Dakotas and Minnesota, some farmers are just getting started.

“Other guys started the beginning of last week already. Planting date (is a factor) and some of the rain we got the last week kind of slowed guys down, but guys are getting rolling pretty good. This week especially, guys really got into (soybeans), it’s been a busy week and there’s some really nice yields coming in.”

For corn, he says most farmers are just getting harvest fired up.

“But actually had some really nice yields coming in too, 240 (bushels per acre), 18 percent (moisture) 97-day corn. So there’s some really nice stuff out there.”

He tells Brownfield the forecast for the first half of October looks fantastic with above-average temperatures and below-normal precipitation.

“I think the harvest is going to go really quick, and that’s a really big deal coming off the last two years.”

Swenson says that should allow farmers to “get the ground put to bed right” with a bigger window for post-harvest fieldwork.

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