Harvest

The labor crunch that applies to seemingly every store and business here in Sioux Falls even applies to South Africans coming to the States, to help with the harvest in the central part of the state.

It was an alphabet soup of farming in the old days.

Iowa-grown sweet corn will be hard to find this weekend.

One fourth of the corn crop in South Dakota and about half of the soybeans have been harvested.

South Dakota farmers made little progress on the late-season harvest in the past week due to bad weather. We had over a week of solid rain. And after the rain finally stopped, before any drying conditions, we got three inches of snow. The federal Agriculture Department in its weekly crop report says less than a full day was considered suitable for fieldwork...