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August 27, 2025
Carter County - Michael Hansen
Well we finally started bailing the sorghum and wow lots of bales. Haven’t made it a third of the way across the field and have a thousand so far. Got the winter canola all planted and it rained a half inch in two different showers the day after that happened so almost all of it sprouted but it is taking it awhile to emerge. The chickpeas have really lost their color in the last few days...I'll probably go kill em the first part of next week. Going to try to cut one barley field this afternoon (8/26) when it warms up, so many green kernels from the second flush of crop, it won’t be much as the hail knocked out most of the first. Even then it wasn’t going to be much of a crop as the heat and dryness was hard on pollination only about half the head has anything, but none the less the mess needs taken care of so more diesel will be burnt for little return. After the rain we built a half mile of fence as well, always lots going on here. We just keep watching the cattle market go higher and higher, sure is strange that we were offered almost 4 grand for some middle of April bull bred heifers. And then you go try to sell wheat and a 1000 bushel load of winter wheat would also gets you about 3850 dollars. Sure is a lot of work in a thousand bushel of grain and hardly any in a cow lol.
Moisture conditions have been fair.
Planted Winter Wheat, Durum, Barley, Garbanzos, Oats, and Hay this growing season.
Fergus County - Brandon Udelhoven
Had to take a couple weeks off from posting as I got tired repeating the same old line f rain and no progress. The last 10 days or so has sorted itself out though and a lot has been accomplished. All the good unhailed crop is in the bins, and all of the winter wheat has been mowed down. Winter wheat was overall a very good crop for the conditions this growing season, just waiting on samples to see if quality was severely impacted. Have around a week left of cutting hailed on, rained out pulses…all will go for insurance so motivation will be lacking other than to hurry up and finish so we can prepare for winter wheat seeding. Hard to believe Labor Day is less than a week away and hopefully drills will be kicking up dust the week after that. Have started root spraying weed patches in the stubbles before the Russian thistle and kochia make seed. Will start desiccating lentils in the mornings so we can cut them too, just too many weeds and green regrowth to cut the 90% dead ripe/rotten plants. Looking forward to slightly shorter days so I can see my kids again during waking hours of the day. Hope everyone is wrapping up and looking forward to next year.
Moisture conditions have been excellent. We have received 0.50 inches of precipitation within the last week on the southern most farms.
It’s hard to believe after cussing the rain for 6 weeks that I am slightly concerned about a dry pattern setting through September. Won’t need big rains, but a .30” would be great appreciated to improve seed in big conditions.
Grasshoppers are still rolling strong, hoping longer nights and cooler weather will slow them down before seeding starts.
Russian thistle and kochia are present at this time.
Planted Winter Wheat, Peas and Lentils this growing season.
Winter Wheat is harvested. 
Fergus County - Robert Bold
The rain finally stopped. Harvest here locally is just about wrapped up. Have not been anywhere to hear of any quality issues. I am sure there are some. The yield was very good...but not for everyone. For example, President Klayton Lohr did not have anywhere close to the yield we had here locally. In fact, I am sure he would like to have been able to use wheat with HB4 technology better known as Stay Green. Or nicknamed Drought Resistant wheat. It allows the wheat plant the opportunity to stay green longer to take advantage of upcoming moisture especially in drought conditions. There are those like some of the talk here at "The Gym", that do not want to seed any winter wheat this year saying the world is awash in wheat--so why raise more? Why allow HB4 to be used to raise more bushels especially in areas suffering drought? If HB4 technology was available, a wheat producer does not have to use it. In fact, why voluntarily use any wheat yield enhancing technology at all? Like fertilizer, fungicides, no till, chem fallow, Banvel, Starane, Open Sky, Anthem Flex, Beyond, Aggressor, Clearfield, CoAXium, rust resistant wheat, solid stem wheat and the list goes on. Producers elect to use these products and practices to enhance the sustainability of their operation. These products are not regulated/legislated to the point of none use as is the talk of HB4. Other wheat exporting countries either have or are on the verge of getting that production technology and are able to put the wheat into the grain trade. But not the US. A non tariff trade barrier...to date. With the timely and abundant rain this summer, it's probably setting us up for 3 1/2 years of continuous drought. I have seen that happen before. The winter canola boys are seeding into excellent moisture. The nights are cooling down. In fact this morning (8/27), with the house windows open, it was 62. Felt good. Why doesn't 62 in the house feel good during the winter months? Hope everyone has a good Labor Day Weekend! Summer is over.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received only a couple of traces, nothing measurable, of precipitation within the last week.
Just finished spraying chem fallow. Got a little too hairy. I see some stubble just barely starting to green up.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Hay this growing season.
Hill County - Eric Hanson
Harvest in our area is wrapping up. Cutters are leaving or have left. What a challenging harvest it has been. This might be the first week we haven’t had any rain in during harvest. And harvest continues to drag on for us. We are still cutting on chickpeas. We’ve cut good ones, heavily hailed ones, and droughted out recrop ones. The latter two have been a test of will power. Just wasn’t the year I guess. Will finally get back to some good chickpeas at some point, but won’t be able to cut much of them as they’ve greened up like you wouldn’t believe with this late summer moisture. They are filling new pods like crazy but have overly ripe pods hanging on right next to them. No idea how it’ll play out, but hoping to get them cut by Halloween or Thanksgiving. Going to take a hard frost probably. Finally caught up on spraying. Kind of. Have now started spraying on next years winter wheat ground so we can start seeding in 10-14 days. With all the moisture and volunteer this season we want to make sure we are doing our due diligence on WSM. A few people have said they will be seeding by this weekend. Wheat markets continue to bleed, although by all accounts, most markets are abysmal. Inputs are still high with no signs of them going down. Heavy discounts on crops with quality issues as well as additional inputs with the late rain weed flushes have a lot of producers financially discouraged and frustrated. There’s just a lot of uncertainty out there. Most everyone I talk to is ready for this year to be over.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have not received any precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Garbanzos this growing season.
Hill County - Trevor Wolery
The good old fashioned harvest weather has finally showed up the last couple of days with harvest now at 95% completion. A few harvest acres of odds and ends will finish the year off. Next phase is the war on weeds that will commence from corner to corner of this farm, bring a sprayer, weed eater, or a garden hoe, we ride at dawn! It’s been a challenging production year with several challenges still ahead.
Moisture conditions have been poor. We have not received any precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Lentils, Garbanzos, and Mustard this growing season.
Judith Basin County - Greg Mathews
Things are progressing very slow. Last week was the best week to get something done as it rained only 0.02 inches. Harvest has been slow and drawn out. Will finish on barley Monday (8/25) and on to the SW for a day. Harvest has been very slow due the the wet, damp, dew mornings and having to quit early for the same reasons. The barley is running out above average except for the hail damaged acres and looks okay, will have to wait for Malteuro to decide about conditions. Then on to the tractor to work one field. Then on to the swather for some second cutting. Then to the sprayer to spray all the ground that got hailed on, then to the air drill to seed some WW. Will have great moisture to seed into. The country still is very green and looks great. Hope everyone has continued good luck at finishing harvest and seeding.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .02 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, and Hay this growing season.
McCone/Dawson County - Trevor Schock
Harvest is nearly done after wondering if we were ever going to be able to get started with all of the rain about a month ago. The late season rain definitely degraded the quality and color of any wheat that was ripe or nearly ripe at that time. Later planted wheat was able to put the rain to use and had very good yield and quality. Peas being an earlier crop didn't get any benefits from that rainy period. They yielded below average and below expectations for the year. Spring was all over the board. Some good to great yields and some below average. It really depended on where the rain fell and the stage of the crop when it came. On fallow ground we had average to some of the best yields ever on fields. The recrop was anywhere from 20 bu/acre to 45 bu/acre. Looking forward to hopefully being done by this weekend. We started peas on 7/25 hoping to start wheat within a week depending on weather.
Moisture conditions have been fair. We have not received any precipitation within the last week.
We've had a good dry stretch now for a couple weeks of good harvest weather. Things are still pretty green for this time of year because of the rain earlier this month but are starting to dry out.
Some sawflies and grasshopper damage on remaining standing crop.
Glyphosate resistant kochia is present at this time.
Planted Spring Wheat and Peas this growing season.
Spring Wheat is in the ripe growth stage.
August 21, 2025
Carter County - Michael Hansen
Moved to the durum and cut it as it was getting full of weeds and was a terribly poor crop. The rain just came too late for it I think...the average was 12 bushel. It did weigh 65 pounds and still has color. Sprayed the chickpeas with fungicide and some foliar fertilizer to try and bring them back to life after the hail. Might have been a poor decision but don’t say whoa in a horse race right. Moved combine to barley but there’s a whole second crop out there now with all the rain and I’m out of air bins so I guess we’ll wait. Decided with all the rain and moisture to try my hand at winter canola. Got a hundred acres in so far in between spraying all the weeds that are coming in the harvested fields. Dad has decided to start haying grass again as well but I’m afraid it looks better than what it really is. We will see when he gets the first field baked up. The second cutting alfalfa looks really good...too bad there is only 25 acres haha. Still cutting on the sorghum as well but as usual it has rained about every other night so that is a slow process as it doesn't take much to get the ground wet under that canopy. The kids went to a horse sale and got a couple colts to keep themselves entertained with in the evenings after school...they can grow with each other I guess.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received several showers within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Durum, Barley, Garbanzos, Oats, and Hay this growing season.
Fergus County - Robert Bold
With the 90 plus degree days, harvest is progressing rapidly. Just need a whole week of this kind of weather. Chem fallow is getting hairy fast. Needs attention. There is a small bar nicknamed The Gym. It gets a lot of its customers from 3 different directions who very positive minded business people who stop in from 4:30 to 6:45 pm to exercise for a short period. Arm curls...12 oz weights. All have now given up riding Harleys. The current talk is the low wheat prices and not having sold enough. There is talk of not seeding an acre of winter wheat this fall for that reason. Why plant a crop that you know will loose money? Like why trade with a country you know up front you will loose $100, $200 or $300 billion per year. So why do it? We have priced some 26 winter wheat while it is still over $6. There is an old saying: "If you can't sell what you want, sell what you can." I see wheat shipments are up considerably to date. Sign wheat prices are cheap enough? Another old saying: "The cure to low prices is low prices." Don't like either old saying for that matter. But you do have to look at the horizon: "The sun will come up tomorrow." With the kids going back to school, hope everyone has a good rest of harvest.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .45 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Hay this growing season.
Hill County - Eric Hanson
Back in the field and cutting chickpeas. Yield not as good as I had hoped but still a decent crop. Was nice to have some time between crops to get caught up with spraying. Lots of weeds met their maker. Have had some real heat this last week, and it’s finally feeling like August harvest weather. Caught another storm last night (Tuesday) and it had the most lightning I think I have ever seen. Was quite a show. Caught 2/10 of rain on the garbs we are cutting on. Some others caught 1/2 inch. So our rained on crops continue to get rained on. They are predicting more storms tonight, so we’ll see. Still wheat standing in the country but this week put a big dent in acres harvested. We plan to start spraying for winter wheat seeding in about 10 days and hope to start the first week of September. Will probably finish seeding before some of our last chickpeas will be ready to cut. So much variability and greenup from rains that desiccation won’t be possible. Will be a test of the patience. This harvest will go down with an * next to it as one of the most interesting. Kids are back in school. Days are getting shorter.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received 0-.5 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Garbanzos this growing season.
Hill County - Trevor Wolery
The saga continues with problematic harvest weather. My last field of lentils was going to be harvested today (8/20) but Mother Nature once again has changed plans. Ended up with a wild lightning wind hail and rain show ending up with .35 at yard and closer to .6 on the northern areas of the farm. Our desiccation applications have not worked as effectively due to ground being wetter than normal this time of year coupled with higher humidity. Mustard crop caught hail and ended have to clean it to remove pods , leaves and etc from 4 stages of crop- dead ripe, flowering , bolting , and emerging at the same time as harvest. Still have DNS, chicks, and lentils to harvest. markets stink and have zero desire to plant hrw into stellar sowing conditions, but we will because that’s what we do. Rinse,wash, and repeat on into next year country!
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .35 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Lentils, Garbanzos, and Mustard this growing season.
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Judith Basin County - Greg Mathews
The first descent week to harvest, except for the break downs, 6 days this last week. The only hold backs were dew, cold mornings, slight showers, and breakdowns. The combine took a break and will be in the dealer shop for 4 days to a week or more for a seal for separator that let grain down into the fan housing causing it to eat the blades. Not a good day considering only 400 hours on machine, its the second one to be put in. Finished the disappointing WW only to cut the last field that as smut in it all because of too much rain. Will try the bly on Wednesday as one can still find some soft kernels. Big rains to the north and south of me on Sat and Sun. Half inch or more. This is the worst harvest ever for sure, should be done or close to it but only 40 percent done. Long lines at both elevators, 3 hours or more to dump on Sat in Moore. Ho hum
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received traces of a few days or dust settlers within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, and Hay this growing season.
Teton County - Mitch Konen
The winter wheat has been done for a week now. Barley harvest has begun slowly as it is hanging on to finish filling the last of the tillers. The winter wheat on the dryland has really high protien while the irrigated ground produced low protein. Production was average. Started the barley acres and it was at marginal moisture limitations so sitting still for a day or so. The few acres we have done were above average with good looking quality. Second cutting hayground is starting to hit the ground in windrows as are the canola acres. Harvest season is in full swing here on the Greenfields bench.
Moisture conditions have been fair. We have not received any precipitation within the last week.
Splash and dash t-storms threaten us with moisture but are unproductive locally. The oven door has been opened. as the days are getting hotter.
Wild oats, Kochia and Lambsquarterare are present at this time.
Planted Winter Wheat, Barley, and Hay this growing season.
Winter Wheat is harvested. Barley is in the ripe growth stage.
August 13, 2025
Carter County - Michael Hansen
Finally finished the winter wheat harvesting...I thought that this would be the first report that I would submit with no rain in it but it showered last night (8/12). After the hail and a two inch downpour last Monday, the winter wheat went from 40 to 20 so that was really fun. Field was still wet but the amount of weeds that are starting to come is insane. Now I’m not sure what to do because the barley and durum have both started regrowing and have green heads next to ripe ones. Started cutting down the sorghum as well but sis only made it a hundred acres in before the gearbox went out of her swather. And as usual the tomorrow store didn’t have the parts to fix it so had to order. Rebuilt the wall on the calving barn as well after the rain when it was too wet to do anything else. And took in the county fair over the weekend.
Moisture conditions have been excellent.
Lots of mosquitoes are present at this time.
Planted Winter Wheat, Durum, Barley, Garbanzos, Oats, and Hay this growing season.
Cascade County - Kelly Hertel
We have started and stopped harvesting due to rain and moisture conditions. Winter wheat, spring wheat, and green peas harvested, almost done harvesting barley, chickpeas desiccated and will harvest next week.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .3 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Saw fly and grass hoppers (minimal compared to some years) are present at this time.
Wild oats, fan weed, prickly lettuce, and Canadian thistle are present at this time.
Ascochyta (neighbor, not us) is present at this time.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, Peas, Garbanzos, and Hay this growing season.
Winter Wheat is harvested. Spring Wheat is harvested. Barley is in the ripe growth stage.
Fergus County - Boyd Heilig
We should wrap up the winter wheat this week. Finally some true harvest weather in the forecast. Will start on the spring crops next.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .85 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, and Canola this growing season.
Winter Wheat is in the ripe growth stage. Spring Wheat is in the hard dough growth stage. Barley is in the soft dough growth stage.
Fergus County - Robert Bold
Another week of moisture. Another inch this last week--even got .30 this morning (8/12). I see on the 7th, 3 of Montana's mountain ranges got their first snow of the season. The winter wheat yields are just out of this world. 70, 80 and some 90 bushel wheat. The early maturing crop is rain bleached. The later crop has good color so far.
Test weight is 58.5 to 62.5 lb/bu. Protein is in the tank. I see CHS has lowered their falling numbers to 300 before discounts. The grain prices are also in the tank. You would think the market bears would be getting exhausted by now. In a down market, sell as much as you can as soon as you can. For me, grain in the bin does no good. If I turn that grain into cash, I can do something. The bushels help to make up for the price this year.
Remember, you can't choose the storm, but you can choose to dance in the rain. Hope this coming week gets a lot of us close to done with harvest.
Moisture conditions have been excellent. We have received 1 inch of rain within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Hay this growing season.
Hill County - Eric Hanson
We’ve finally got some harvest weather after slogging through the last few weeks of rain. We got another big shot of rain last Friday. Anywhere from .5-2” of rain. Actually took the kids to see a movie in town during harvest. That’s a first. Got back in the field and finished spring wheat Monday night under a beautiful moon. Despite leaving numerous ruts, we did not get stuck. Had to cut around a few places with standing water in the wheat. That’s a first. Quality seemed to still be there. We’ll see when we get samples back. Started desiccating chickpeas yesterday. With the 4-5” of rain we’ve had in the last 5 weeks, they’ve decided to green up and get greener every day, even though the actual pods and peas are ready to be harvested. Driving around standing water in them too. And in the chemfallow. I’ve left more ruts and driven around more water holes in fields in August than I did all spring. That’s a first. Lots of weeds coming with all the rain. And volunteer in this years winter wheat already showing up. Lots of seat time in the sprayer while we wait for chickpeas to be ready to harvest. The light is already changing. A few mornings have had a hint of fall in them. Not far off from fall seeding. Lots to do before now and then. I’ve seen a few drills going—seeding some winter canola. Will be interesting to watch in our neck of the woods. Kids go back to school next week. Summer is over. That sure went fast.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .5-2 inches of rain within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Garbanzos this growing season.
Hill County - Trevor Wolery
Days been running together around here lately. Karleen back to teaching, Dirk starts football end of week and school next week along with Rhett leaving for Bozeman also. No one will be around to tell me what I need to be doing now. Hoping to finish winter wheat harvest this week if all holds together. DNS is 10 days to two weeks away yet from harvest. Mustard is ready to cut but really has taken a beating with our July/August weather. Replanted lentils this spring are ready for desiccation along with Bridger chick peas.
Moisture has guaranteed us sprays days forever around here. Markets continue to spiral, quality concerns in ww, bills continue to stack up, stay the course and keep plowing forward!
Moisture conditions have been fair. We have received .36 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Lentils, Garbanzos, and Mustard this growing season.
Judith Basin County - Greg Mathews
Got home on Tuesday from Boyd's and cut roughly 80 acres and it rained. Wed 0.08 Thur 0.50 Mist on Fri. morning and very cool upper 50's Tried it today and it only dried down to 14.5 Will try it again Monday and hope for some heat and a little wind. Found some frost damage in the WW and the yield shows it. Test weigh from 58.9 to 60.1 Protein from 11.4 to 12.1 The county looks very green except where the hail covered the ground and froze the grass, turned brown and not anything there to graze. The hills are green and look likes lots of grass. Harvest in the Basin is behind yearly average because 1 to 3 short days to harvest is not enough to get much done.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received 1.12 inches of precipitation within the last week.
The rain needs to stop for a week and let everyone get some grain cut. Sad to complain about the rain but it is getting a little old and trying. Will be great to seed this fall with the profile getting some what filled.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, and Hay this growing season.
Teton/Chouteau Counties - Lee Dahlman
We started harvest here July 23rd. It is going slow due to many rain delays. Will finish winter wheat 8/13. Pulse crops done. Malt bly left.
Moisture conditions have been excellent. We have received 2.1 inches of precipitation within the last 10 days.
Falling numbers and maybe disease are an area of concern at this time.
Planted Winter Wheat, Barley, Peas, and Lentils this growing season.
Winter Wheat is in the ripe growth stage. Barley is in the ripe growth stage.
August 6, 2025
Carter County - Michael Hansen
Well this is just absolutely crazy...finally got to cut some winter wheat and then it rained an inch. So waited until yesterday (8/4) to start again and cut for one day and got another inch of rain. So in the past ten days we’ve got to combine two days. The winter wheat is completely bleached not a speck of red in it anymore. The yield is from 30 to 40 bushel with a seventy bushel stand of straw. Not sure if we will ever get done...I don’t understand why anytime I try to do something with farming it rains. On the bright side the sorghum is just loving life and the chickpeas are still flowering. With all the rain we’ve had I decided to clean the ray winter wheat and hay barley so we are ahead of schedule on one part of the equation.
We have received too much moisture.
Planted Winter Wheat, Durum, Barley, Garbanzos, Oats, and Hay this growing season.
Fallin County - Randy Wolenetz
Our summer work is progessing steadily.
We are planning to start harvest in about 5 days.
Moisture conditions have been excellent. We have received 1.5 inches of precipitation within the last week.
We need an average or better frost free date and extra heat units to finish the safflower/corn to have an extra successful year.
There is Kochia in the wheat and grassy weeds under the sorghum sedan canopy.
Leaf diseases are present in the winter wheat.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Safflower, Corn, and Sorghum Seden (forage) this growing season.
Winter Wheat is in the ripe growth stage. Spring Wheat is in the hard dough growth stage.
Fergus County - Boyd Heilig
Harvest has been very slow. Only 2 out of 10 of actual harvest weather. Had some more hail show up this last week. Yields are still quite good but the quality is falling every day.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received 1.2 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, and Canola this growing season.
Winter Wheat is in the ripe growth stage. Spring Wheat is in the hard dough growth stage. Barley is in the soft dough growth stage.
Fergus County - Brandon Udelhoven
Still extremely slow. Another .5” to 1.5” of rain this past week puts parts of the farm as high as 6” in the past 3 weeks. Very good winter wheat crop but assuming quality is going down the drain. Peas are shelling and lentils are sitting in mud and have started reblooming in places. About 1/3 done with harvest and am pretty much over it. A few breakdowns have cost us precious time cutting on the rare days that have been dry enough to go. Hired custom applicator to spray chemfallow as it was getting out of control and I have no time…apparently the weeds enjoy the rain more than the ripe crop. Looks like there could be a light at the end of the tunnel after this weekends cooler weather and if not hot atleast maybe dry…I take solace that even with the challenging year, my family is healthy and happy and I’m lucky enough to farm in God’s country.
Moisture conditions have been excellent. We have received .5-1.5 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Daily showers need to quit. Rain, rain go away, come again September 1st.
Grasshoppers are present at this time.
Planted Winter Wheat, Peas and Lentils this growing season.
Winter Wheat is in the ripe growth stage.
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Fergus County - Robert Bold
Well another wet week. Just got another .40" last night (8/4) and .30" two nights before that. That makes almost 3/4 inch rain in August. On top of the nearly 4 1/2 inches in July. I have never seen weather like this. We are ready to start cutting second cutting alfalfa as soon as the ground dries out. Not much winter wheat cut yet due to the rain. We have cut none. I see Fergus County is now declared a disaster county for feed assistance. Can't help but look over the fence. The cow people get feed assistance with $3.85 for 650 pound steer calves and pay no premium. Crop insurance has a premium for only a % of your historic production. 50 years ago, wheat price was in the low $4 range. Steer calves were just short of $1 per pound back then for a 385 pounder. I really don't see any hope for wheat prices with the 2025 crop. I have priced some 26 winter wheat while still over $6. I think my price canary in the coal mine--oats--is officially dead on the bottom of the cage. There is just a lot of chart damage done to wheat that needs to be recovered. But wheat price will come up--some day. My luck when that ship comes in, I will probably be at the air port waiting for it.
Moisture conditions have been excellent.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Hay this growing season.
Hill County - Eric Hanson
I was raised a good farm kid, so I won’t ever complain about rain. That being said, the current pattern we are in sure is preventing us from getting on with business. I’ve lost track of how much rain we’ve even gotten in the last month. All I know if my pickup has been muddier in the last month than it was all spring. This is the greenest I can ever remember seeing the end of July and into August. And the weather has been too darn pleasant. Where is our 95-100 degree scorching heat?! I jest, but this is just odd to have daily temps in the upper 70s to low 80s. It’s been nice to have cooler days to fix and repair and get other things done. We finished winter wheat almost a week ago—in the rain. It has rained off and on ever since. In fact I had to clean out the combine tank like we were putting it away for the year because the wheat was growing and turning to pig slop in there. Buckets of lovely smelling stuff. Another thing that doesn’t complain about rain is weeds. And they are growing. The chemfallow needs another go at it—there again we have been held up by the rain. The spring wheat is about a good week of dry weather away from harvesting, but we are suppose to have rain again on Friday. Frustrating to watch its quality start to fade just like the winter wheat did. We will start desiccating some of our chickpeas in a week or so. They are turning and maturing but with this rain are holding onto green leaves and stems. And an attack on the chemfallow will occur whenever the opportunity presents itself. We’ll probably work on cleaning winter wheat and start prepping for seeding, that will start in 4 weeks or so, weather permitting.
Moisture conditions have been good.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Garbanzos this growing season.
Hill County - Trevor Wolery
I have ran out of rusty nails to chew on and resorted to the old steel can of Folgers filled with rusty fence staples. Weather continues to halt harvest progress around here. 2.03” for the month of July and .81 inches for the first 6 days of August with neighbors to the west of me receiving double those precipitation amounts in the last 10 days. I never have felt so conflicted on whether I should be mad that I did not receive those amounts of rain or elated that I did not receive those amounts of rain. Still with 50% of WW acres to harvest yet...with serious quality concerns going forward when It finally drys out to harvest again. Saturday nights weather brought some hail to a few acres of lentils, mustard and winter wheat. Yields in the beginning of harvest were better than expected but have dwindled to less than our typical APH history. I presume more variety related and spotty spring rain showers being the culprit. Fertility and timing was all there last fall just could not get a rain event in April and May to help out. Frustrating times in Farming with renewed optimism for this fall’s planting conditions married with this fall’s stomach ache of market turmoils. Next year country is not able to pay for last years inputs. Everyone stay safe, keep your head up and forge ahead.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .47 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Lentils, Garbanzos, and Mustard this growing season.
Judith Basin County - Greg Mathews
Started harvesting for Boyd at Moore and this week we did not work for 2 straight days yet. It rained 4 of the last 7 days. Sun 0.51, Mon 1.44, Fri 0.29, and Sat 0.12. The Friday storm had hail in it and damaged about 300 acres of mine. Tthe hail was pea to 2 inches in diameter. Moccasin bench took some more hail and was not nice there, and Moore area too. Total for July was 4.11"...unbelievable! The wheat that we harvested looks like white wheat with no color in it. Not much protein...10.5 to 10.9 and one field at 9.0, test weight was 61 to 59 pounds. Hope to move home Tuesday and try it here, after the supposed storms that are forecasted. Some are still trying to put up hay that was down for almost 3 weeks, and doesn't look good, but it will make a turd.
Moisture conditions have been fair. We have received 2.36 inches of precipitation within the last week.
The rain needs to stop for a week and let everyone get some grain cut. Sad to complain about the rain but it is getting a little old and trying. Will be great to seed this fall with the profile getting some what filled.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, and Hay this growing season.
Teton County - Levi Ostberg
Summer progress is progressing well. Trying to harvest winter wheat as the rain showers allow.
Moisture conditions have been fair. We have received 1 inch of precipitation within the last week.
Rain is affecting quality on the ripe wheat and barley
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, and Hay this growing season.
Winter Wheat is in the ripe growth stage. Spring Wheat is in the soft dough growth stage. Barley is in the soft dough growth stage.
Teton County - Mitch Konen
Missed last weeks report due to being busy harvesting the dryland winter wheat. The chemfallow did about average with very high protein and good falling numbers. The terminated grass last June and drilled to winter wheat didn't have enough moisture to survive very well and was awfully thin. The sawflies loved it and made a total mess of it. Not much there to speak of but got plenty of windshield time just covering the acres. Didn't burn much fuel. The highlight of harvest so far was having my 87 year old dad, and 89 year old uncle, actually climb the ladder of the combine and went for a ride with me. Farming is still in their blood.
The irrigated winter wheat might go by the weekend and the barley is 10 days to 2 weeks out at best.
Been getting a lot of popcorn showers lately. Not really worth a lot of moisture, just enough to shut you down for the morning hours. The grass hay has been done for a couple weeks now. Spent last weekend camping up the Sun River canyon before the harvest begins on the bench.
Moisture conditions have been fair. We have received .2 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Popcorn showers hindering the progress of harvesting.
Wild oats and Kochia are present at this time.
Leaf stripe on some earlier hailed on barley is present.
Planted Winter Wheat, Barley, and Hay this growing season.
Winter Wheat is harvested. Barley is in the hard dough growth stage.
