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1 week ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News A little rain goes a long way for wheat May 29, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: News, South Dakota, WheatThe executive director of the South Dakota Wheat Commission says recent rains have helped improve wheat quality in the state. Jonathan Kleinjan says “we were kind of on the dry side most of the spring and then, 10 days to two weeks ago, we started getting rain.
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1 week ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Rains give a boost to South Dakota’s wheat May 27, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: News, South Dakota, WheatSouth Dakota’s wheat crop has benefitted from the recent rains. USDA says spring wheat conditions rated 55 percent good to excellent, an increase of 18 percentage points from the previous week. Ninety-two percent of the crop has emerged. Winter wheat conditions improved five-percentage points, now rated 28 percent good to excellent.
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2 weeks ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Crops avoid frost and snow damage May 23, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, News, South DakotaA farmer in northeast South Dakota says recent rains and cool temperatures have delayed some planting progress. “In fact, we had to cross our fingers and toes to avoid frost damage and even snow.”DuWayne Bosse says north of his farm there was a trace of snow this week, but he thinks crop damage has been avoided.
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2 weeks ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Extreme weather delays some South Dakota planting May 19, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, News, South DakotaA farmer in eastern South Dakota says extreme weather has hit in the last week, with thunderstorms delaying soybean planting on Monday. “It was a pretty rowdy storm with a lot of lightening, thunder and high winds.
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3 weeks ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Planting advances, SD wheat conditions decline May 12, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: Agriculture, News, South DakotaPlanting continues to move at a quick pace in South Dakota. USDA says corn planting is 69 percent complete, a jump of 30 percentage points from the previous week and ahead of average. Corn is 21 percent emerged. More than half of the soybeans are planted with seven percent of the crop emerged.
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3 weeks ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Good crop emergence ahead of the cold May 12, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, Corn, News, South Dakota, SoybeansA farmer in northeast South Dakota says it’s been one of the earliest planting seasons ever. “We had good planting conditions, we weren’t mudding things in and people moved right along.”Bob Metz says the farm wrapped up planting on Monday, and corn and soybeans are emerging well, so far.
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4 weeks ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Tar spot spreading in South Dakota May 9, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: Corn, News, South DakotaA plant pathologist says farmers should be on the lookout for tar spot. “We found tar spot in 46 of our 66 counties last year.”Connie Strunk with South Dakota State University Extension says the disease was found at harvest in eastern South Dakota and it will likely show up again this year, but it’s unclear how early.
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1 month ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News South Dakota farmers making good progress May 5, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, News, South DakotaCorn and soybean planting remain ahead of average in South Dakota. USDA says 39 percent of the corn and 25 percent of the soybeans are planted, respectively, with four percent of the corn emerged. Eight percent of the sorghum crop has been planted. Winter wheat is rated 25 percent good to excellent, an improvement from the previous week.
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1 month ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Corn planting will pick up soon May 5, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, Corn, News, South DakotaAn agronomist says the short-term weather forecast should encourage more corn planting across South Dakota and Minnesota. Rick Swenson is with Peterson Farms Seed.
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1 month ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News A good, early spring in South Dakota May 2, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, News, South DakotaSouth Dakota farmer Jason Frerichs says the early spring is a win for area farmers. “It was almost too good to be true,” he says. “The forecast didn’t look bad, there wasn’t any snow and it doesn’t look like it’s too cold or wet, so we just got going.”Frerichs says corn and soybeans have been planted in between timely rains.
