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Weather Creates Unusual Harvest Season

Published August 30, 2025

At Mandan, Dennis Renner says his wheat yields have varied, but quality is holding up. Renner expects the small grain harvest to wrap up within the week, with canola, soybeans, sunflowers and corn still ahead. “There’s been yields as high…

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Wheat Harvest Nears Completion at Grand Forks

Published August 30, 2025

Wheat harvest is moving quickly in the Grand Forks area. “We’re probably two-thirds done. Proteins have been very, very decent," said Paul Sproule. "The test weight has been good, 60, 61, 61 and a half."  Sproule also noted the farm…

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Northeast South Dakota Fields Flooded After Heavy Rains

Published August 18, 2025

Heavy rains continue to drench northeast South Dakota, leaving fields saturated and crops at risk. Dairyland Seeds District Sales Manager Keith Rekow says the ground has reached its limit for moisture. "The joke down here, a 20 percent chance means…

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Recent Rains Boost Later-Planted Crops

Published August 10, 2025

North Border Seed Sales Agronomist Mark Torno says early-planted wheat struggled under the dry conditions in north-central North Dakota, but later-seeded crops are responding well. “The wheat that got in early, the yield is not going to be there. With…

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Decent Wheat Seen Between the Rains

Published August 6, 2025

Ethan Woods, who operates Woods Harvesting, is seeing a good winter wheat crop coming off the combine in north central Montana. "Decent yields in the 50s for bushels per acre, but we've had rain every other night, it seems like.…

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Montana Lentil Yields Look Promising

Published July 22, 2025

In addition to wheat, the pulse crop harvest is happening in parts of the Northern Plains. Custom harvester Stefanu Schmidt recently relocated his crew to Havre, Montana. “We were reading anything up to like 30 bushel lentils so, yeah, we’re…

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Time for Fall Fieldwork

Published November 26, 2023

With harvest finishing up, Drew Courtney is pleased to be getting other fieldwork done near Oakes, North Dakota. “Most of the tillage work is getting wrapped up and a lot of fertilizer got done. People are going to be happy…

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Mother Nature Stalls Corn Harvest

Published November 26, 2023

The harvest has been a tough slog for Washburn, North Dakota farmer Joe Sheldon. “Our area received 14 inches of snow in mid-October and that really slowed things down.” Sheldon says their farm still has some corn standing due to…

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Sabin Harvest Nears the End

Published November 22, 2023

Tanner Thompson, who is with Prairie's Edge Agri-Service says the harvest is nearly complete near Sabin, Minnesota. Weather caused some delays throughout harvest. “We had a little snow that slowed guys up for a few days and now we’ve had…

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Phenomenal Yields

Published November 20, 2023

For Erskine, Minnesota farmer Brady Lee, the yields seen this year were some of the best he's seen in his farming career. It was still a grind. "We had a few small pesky rain showers and some wet, sloppy snow…

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