The row crops are benefiting from the recent heat and humidity in the Devils Lake, North Dakota area. Rock and Roll Agronomy owner Jason Hanson says the corn has really shot up height-wise. However, the soybeans could still use some help. “It was a cool spring when they were being planted and you can still see that impact,” says Hanson. “The farmer gets paid on bushels, and they’d like to have more growing points, but sometimes a short bean plant and a tall one can yield the same.” A majority of the wheat in the Lake Region Basin is past flowering and farmers were able to apply fungicide. Despite the heat, Hanson says there is plenty moisture beneath the soil to finish grain fill. The canola crop is starting to drop flowers. “That crop looks better than I expected because it was a fight between dry soils and flea beetles.”