It was a relief for Niagara, North Dakota farmer Mike Kelly when the last of the 2019 soybean crop went through the combine and into the bin. The hopes of finishing harvest anytime soon were small after two feet of snow fell in northeast, North Dakota one month ago. Given the conditions, Kelly was surprised by soybean yields. “Conservatively, I feel like I lost five-to-six bushels an acre in yield from that two-foot snow in October,” says Kelly. “They are higher moisture than I would like, but the quality is there. It was a very frustrating, brutal fall and harvest.” While it is a relief to have this year’s crop off, Kelly is trying to devise a game plan for next spring. Very little fall fieldwork was completed on his farm. “I don’t have any vertical tillage equipment and a lot of acres of untouched soil. On top of that, no fertilizer was applied. There is a challenge going into 2020, that’s for sure.”
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