Only a third of South Dakota’s topsoil moisture is adequate to surplus. Corn is 24 percent good to excellent. Half the crop is mature, which is ahead of average. South Dakota soybeans are 21 percent good to excellent, according to USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service. Seventy-nine percent of the soybean crop is dropping leaves and three percent is harvested.

Southeastern South Dakota farmer Tim Ostrem says, considering the unevenness of rain this year, the soybean harvest will be highly variable.

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