Tim Luken, manager of Oahe Grain in central South Dakota said, "Beans are done, and we while don’t take any beans here, I can tell you, I have heard yields to be 15 to 60 bpa and have also heard a lot of 40 to 45 bpa."
"As far as our corn crop, I have talked with farmers and am hearing yields 40 to 125 bpa," Luken said.
Field moistures are all over in these type of fields at 18.5 to 21% moisture.
sunflowers, and thanks to the late frost we had this year again, the sunflowers picked up more test weight and oil content."
"The soybean harvest went well with yield from 30s to upper 40s; good bean yields for the moisture we had.
Test weight is good so far, but yields are less than average but a little better than expected considering the season, and (we’re) just happy to start getting it out of the field.
We had a good run harvesting soybeans with moistures dropping throughout harvest, and we finished with soybean moistures below 10%."
Heading into eastern North Dakota, an elevator manager told me that they were done with beans and ended up with a 39 bpa average versus last year’s record of 52 bpa.
"Yields so far at 170 bpa vs. last year yield of nearly 200.
Good test weight and moistures down to 17% this past week."