Harvest is steaming toward the finish across the KVOE listening area.
Lyon County Extension ag agent Brian Rees says there are some late-planted and double-crop soybeans yet to harvest, and he’s expecting the bean harvest to wrap up within the next two weeks. Corn, meanwhile, may be done a bit later in November.
To this point, Rees says corn and bean yields will be average at best.
Rees says yields will let producers “pay most of the bills this year,” but they won’t let producers replace any equipment, add new equipment or begin other projects.
Monday’s rainfall was good for the soil profile short-term, but Rees says more rain — and a harder rainfall — is also needed.
Drought conditions have been deepening for weeks, even with the half-inch to over two inches of rainfall Monday, but Rees says conditions here are a lot better than they are further south — notably in Greenwood County, where drought conditions range from severe to exceptional. Rees says the Monday rainfall was a soaking rainfall, but it may not have recharged the soil profile below half an inch or so — and the soaking rainfall is good, but the area needs at least one hard rainfall to help alleviate the current drought.
