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Southwest Minnesota crops stressed
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| Jim Willers |
BEAVER CREEK, Minn. - With only a half inch of rain in the last five weeks, crops in the Beaver Creek, Minn., area started stressing.
Minnesota crop watcher Jim Willers reports the crops are beginning to turn yellow or brown.
“This will take off some of the top-end yield potential on both the corn and bean crop. The light spots in the fields have turned yellow and brown as the heat over Labor Day weekend was stressful to the crops in Rock County,” he said.
Producers in the Beaver Creek area have begun chopping corn silage. Any hay that was worth cutting for the last time is being put up now.
“I have been working on having our trucks inspected, doing work done on my corn dryer and generally getting ready for harvest,” he said.
Willers said the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council hosted the U.S. Soybean Export Council's Soy Industry Program Sept. 11 and 12 near Plato, Minn. Dignitaries from 19 countries met to learn about how the U.S. soybean industry plans to meet the needs of global food demands.
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