After weeks of uninterrupted harvest, snow forced many South Dakota farmers out of the field. Eastern South Dakota farmer Drew Peterson finished soybean harvest despite being without some essential help.
“My father actually came down with COVID-19 right when we were getting on soybeans, so he was laid up for about three weeks,” Peterson told Brownfield Ag News. “We all just went maybe a little bit harder, longer hours individually than we normally would to keep things rolling, but he’s on the upswing now and feeling good and he’s in the combine right now.”
With 550 acres of corn left, the Petersons’ harvest is stalled, waiting for the early snow and mud to disappear.
