Mild Fall Weather Allowing Farmers To Get A Lot Of Field Work Done
Mild Fall Weather Allowing Farmers To Get A Lot Of Field Work Done
November 03, 2021Steve Schwaller
(Lakefield, Mn.)– The relatively nice weather for early November is allowing producers to finish up what’s left of the harvest. Jim Nesseth of Extended Ag Services in Lakefield says it’s also allowing them to get a jump start on next year by getting some tillage done yet this season…
“We really couldn’t ask for a better forecast right now to get finished up with harvest and getting the rest of that crop out of the field. And we maybe have 10, 15 percent of the corn left and there’s maybe an occasional soybean field out there, but by and large a lot of the grain farmers are probably wrapping things up and tillage is being caught up, maybe applying some fertilizer yet and getting that ground tilled, but the livestock producers still got some work out there to do. There’s a lot of round baling being done yet and the corn that’s standing, you know, I think they’re waiting for that to get harvested and get some of that dry stocks baled up and quite a bit of manure going on now and some tillage there. So there’s some work to be done yet but if we can get this nice stretch of weather, Steve, in the next week to 10 days we’ll have a lot of things accomplished and a lot of guys will have stuff put away for the year.”
Nesseth says the rains this fall have also resulted in a drastic improvement in subsoil moisture…
“We were at all time lows, really, in the last five, six years here. We were down to about an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half available in August, and since then we’ve recharged that subsoil moisture so we’re up to about six inches. So we’ve gained about four and a half inches this fall and I think some of our producers are saying hey our tiles are starting to run again and those types of things, but that’s really good news for our producers to get that recharge.”
Had it not been for those rains, Nesseth says things would have been extremely critical for farmers going into the 2022 growing season.
