Harvest- Harvest continues to creep along. I still feel that we are a but further along than what the Montana state averages are, but maybe not as far along as I had initially thought. Weather conditions the past couple of weeks have not been conducive to getting many acres combined. When it is fit, farmers have been out and some of our safflower crop is starting to come off but we just have not had a string of acceptable days to be able to make much more progress in harvesting our crops.
Corn silage has began in earnest and silage is being put up as quickly as trucks can get it from the field to the storage structure. Second cutting hay has all but wrapped up and third cutting has started but weather conditions have all but stopped it for the time being.
Sugarbeets- Hail storms late last week did cause some damage to some sugarbeet acres in the valley. Fortunately, the damage was fairly minimal and should not cause too much loss in tonnage.
Weather- As I am typing this on Friday, September 17, the temperatures are in the high 30's to low 40's and snow has fallen a good portion of the day. As I highlighted above conditions all this week have not been all that great as we have seen colder temperatures and rain showers most of the week.
Planting- As far as I know, there has not been any winter wheat planted yet. Ground has been worked and my assumption is that much of the intended winter wheat acreage is ready to be planted, we are just waiting on the fields to dry out some.
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