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South Dakota farmer: wet weather pushes soybean planting

A farmer in northeast South Dakota says soybean planting is dragging out beyond the final planting date due to consistent rains.

“From about May 25th on, whatever you don’t have done has been really difficult to finish up on.”

DuWayne Bosse, who’s also a crop insurance agent and market analyst, says there are only a few fields left to plant on his farm, but “I’ve got clients that have like 1,000 acres of beans left to go. I feel bad. The frustration level is high for those guys. And now, you’re past June 10, you know, if they wanted to prevent planted, they can, and a lot of them probably will.”

Bosse says he’s not expecting a lot of prevent plant in South Dakota, but some.

“Prevent plant will be lower probably even than last year (for the Dakotas), which was a low year number for total acres because North Dakota got quite a bit in. I drove through there last weekend and things look pretty good.”

He says the corn looks good, but is behind on progress along with the soybeans.

“We’re not in that really pretty stage yet, where corn roots down and hits the nitrogen that’s in the soil for it. So that’s probably why the crop condition scores in the Dakotas are, they aren’t bad, they’re just lacking the rest of the nation.”

Severe weather has been happening this spring, but Bosse says he’s not expecting any major events in the short-term.