Crop Watcher News Today

"I’m just learning to be more patient with things, learning to be more wise with our time and our energy."

Northeastern South Dakota has an abundance of corn.

"One day I decided to round bale about 60 cornstalk bales, but things were going so well I ended up baling a half section."

"My rock trap and it came open when I was down in the mud. I found out if you close it, you get a 60-bushel yield bump."

The entire family is helping with harvest and fall field work on the Wittnebel farm, while also showing some school spirit for Halloween.

"The green hues on the rolling prairies in our area are slowly starting to fade to the fall yellows, browns and grays."

"Once the fields dried up after the rain, we were back at it again to finish the field of corn and started on some bean fields."

The fiber yield looks to be the largest Blake Burggraff has ever had. “It’s a really cool problem to have,” he said.

"We are ahead of schedule. This is caused by the lack of rain and the high heat we got in the last half of August."

We had a very nice, warm weekend to start pushing some crop along. It is a lot more evident in the drought-stressed crops, though.