(Lakefield, Mn.)– Ideal weather up until now has allowed producers to make good progress with the harvest. Jim Nesseth of Extended Ag Services in Lakefield estimates about a third of the soybeans are out. He says yields continue to vary quite a bit…
“They’re not all good. Any place that they had some real drought stress and just a shortage of rain and some lighter soils, you know, those yields are probably in the 30’s to low 40’s, but overall on the heavier soils where we got some timely rains a lot of 50 to 60 bushel yields and some even higher than that. So I think everyone’s feeling pretty good about that and the theme is better than expected is kind of there. And so that’s good news for a lot of our producers.”
Nesseth says corn yields are even more variable, but, for the most part, are also better than first thought…
“In our customer base, you know, we probably have got a range of probably 25 to maybe up to 75 percent losses on some of those really hard hit fields where the corn is down. So we’re going to have a wide range of yields there. But again, overall better than expected. I think we’re going to see quite a few yields in that 175 to 200 bushel where they don’t have wind damage and corn probably followed soybeans in the corn and soybean rotation. So there’s some nice yield there and there’s some higher than that. So it just depends on where you’re at. Some areas got more moisture than others, so a lot of variability.”
The wet weather expected over the next several days will likely put a pause on the harvest.
