Harvest- With the recent string of nice days, crops have been coming out of the fields at quite the fast pace. Producers are definitely in the "winding down" phases of harvesting small grains, if not completely finished. To date, I have not seen any corn taken off for grain and the little amount of soybeans that are out are still fairly green.
Sugarbeet harvest has started in earnest and my guess is that we are about 35% complete with that. The issue for our beet growers has been unfavorable weather conditions in that it has been too warm. To help prevent spoilage, the sugar plant has stopped harvest in the early afternoon just about every day this week. Producers that are capable of doing so, are starting in the wee hours of the morning and harvesting until it gets too warm. The next couple of days are not forecasted to be too warm so my guess is that a large quantity of beets will be pulled out of the ground the remainder of this week and into next.
Weather- As I type this post, it is a comfortable 65 degrees outside with a little bit of rain drizzle. Not at all indicative of what this week has been like. Highs this week have been in the high 70's to low 80's without any rain. While this has helped our wheat, durum, barley, and oat guys get a considerable amount of crop harvested, as I mentioned above, it has not been beneficial to our beet growers.
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