Buxton, North Dakota farmer Chris Hong hopes to begin the spring harvest by the end of the week. Hong says most of his wheat is on tiled or well-drained ground and looks good. The row crops vary widely. “Half of the edible bean crop looks phenomenal; 25 percent is average and the other 25 percent is way below average.” There’s a similar story for sugarbeets with Hong estimating the first 25 percent of his crop may be a record. Fifty percent of the crop will be at the (Red River) Valley average and the last 25 percent of the beets planted are going to be sub-par.” Hong says those average-to-below average yields are due to too much water. Over one-third of his acres are prevented plant. “That area south of Grand Forks has high horsepower ground and a lot of good producers; some of the fields just got hammered with way too much moisture.”
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