Recent rainfall has already recharged area crops to a degree after three solid weeks of blistering heat and dryness.
Lyon County Extension ag agent Brian Rees says beans that emerged and have enjoyed some shade have gotten a lot of help this week.
Double-crop beans could fill out nicely if we get an inch or more of rainfall through the rest of this week, especially if they can get shade.
The recent combination of heat and dryness likely “took the top end off some corn.” He’s seen a lot of variance in Lyon County’s corn conditions this summer. Some of the corn has already been cut and some has “fired,” meaning the bottoms of the plants are either drying out or have already dried out.
As far as the winter wheat harvest is concerned, the crop was decent to above-average. Moisture during harvest cut somewhat into the test weights, but yields were good and prices were solid, especially given the war between Russia and Ukraine. Rees believes crop prices could stay above average, in large part because of the war in Ukraine.
