Minot-area farmer Chad Rubbelke has wrapped up soybean harvest, with yields coming in around average after a challenging growing season. Heavy June rainfall was followed by hot and extremely dry conditions in July. “We had an early flash drought, right in that early May timeframe. We turned extremely wet and got about a year-and-a-half worth of rain in June, and then we dried out.” Rubbelke said the weather extremes reinforced the importance of managing crop stress. “This is probably the only year in my history that I’ve seen where we’ve had such fill losses in July, especially in our wheats.”
