Harvest Delays in Central North Dakota

Harvest has come to a halt in parts of central North Dakota as wet conditions keep farmers out of the fields. Mandan area farmer Dennis Renner says most of his corn and soybeans are complete, but soggy soils are holding up progress. “We’ve had, I think, in the last six weeks, over eight inches of rain. This last one produced a little over two inches for us here, it’s wet.” A fair amount of crop has been harvested. “It’s been going pretty well. We finished up the beans, and the corn was coming off pretty dry in some cases because of the frost earlier,” said Renner.