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Crop Progress: Soybean Harvest in Final Phase

For the week ending Oct. 27, 2024, there were 6.5 days suitable for fieldwork, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Topsoil moisture supplies rated 48% very short, 36% short, 16% adequate and 0% surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies rated 44% very short, 36% short, 20% adequate and 0% surplus.

Field Crops Report:

Corn harvested was 79%, ahead of 72% last year and 67% for the five-year average.

Soybeans harvested was 94%, ahead of 89% last year, and near 91% average.

Winter wheat condition rated 9% very poor, 20% poor, 37% fair, 31% good, and 3% excellent. Winter wheat emerged was 81%, behind 93% last year and 90% average. 

Sorghum harvested was 71%, ahead of 65% last year and 66% average.

Dry edible beans harvested was 96%, equal to last year, and near 95% average.

Pasture and Range Report:

Pasture and range conditions rated 37% very poor, 26% poor, 24% fair, 12% good, and 1% excellent.

Source : unl.edu

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Harvesting the soybean fields this year feels more like driving our farm equipment through a maze than a field, because of the 13 inches of rain in June and replanted areas. Join me today as I take the reins of the combine and harvest the areas of the fields that are dry. Learn about why we drive around the wet soybeans and the current plan to harvest them. Also, see John Deere's Machine Sync in use between the combine and the grain cart tractor. It's pretty evident that harvesting the soybeans this year is going to take longer than years past because of how much our productivity is lessened due to all the extra turning around and driving in a random fashion.