South Dakota corn harvest a quarter finished

South Dakota corn harvest a quarter finished

A quarter of the South Dakota corn crop is combined, ahead of last year’s 18 percent, but behind average. Two-thirds of the crop is good to excellent.

Almost half the soybeans are cut, well behind last year’s 76 percent. Soybeans are 61 percent good to excellent.

Ruth Beck is a South Dakota State University agronomist in Pierre.

“Right in the central part of the state we’ve seen a lot of the corn get harvested.

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