Soybean harvest started unusually early last week in South Dakota in what had been projected to be a record-sized crop, while the winter wheat crop for next summer’s harvest began being planted, reports the Capital Journal.
The state’s farmers — maybe it was only one or two — gleaned 1% of the state’s soybeans in the week ended Sunday, Sept. 9, according to the USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service office in Sioux Falls from its weekly crop progress report.
That’s the earliest soybean harvest in the state since 1985 when records are available, except for 2012 when 3% of the crop was harvested also by the end of the calendar year’s 36th week, according to NASS records.
Often, of course, an early harvest is linked to dry conditions.
