September 10, 2025

Carter County - Michael Hansen

Still bailing on the sorghum and cutting the other field. But it froze this past week and the sorghum that was left standing did not take the frost well...but the swather has been able to go 2 mph faster in it since it dried that much in two days after the freeze. Killed the garden as well which was fine with me as we were getting overrun with vegetables. Shipped yearling steers...they weighed great 1021 average. Preg checked the yearling heifers and they also tested really good. Moved combine to chickpea field and will try to see if it is ripe enough yet to cut. Looked far more brown from a mile away than right up next to it. Also sprayed the winter canola as the volunteer cereal crops were getting quite thick in places. Also borrowed a neighbors disc ripper and ran it over one of my extremely rough fields to see if it would smooth it out and it certainly helped...was quite strange pulling an implement that wasn’t much wider than my tractor tires though.
Moisture conditions have been good.
Planted Winter Wheat, Durum, Barley, Garbanzos, Oats, and Hay this growing season.
 

 

Fergus County - Brandon Udelhoven

Harvest might finally come to an end…if all goes well should put a wrap on the very last of the lentils Tuesday morning (the 9th). It will be a new record long harvest at 53 days, something I hope I never see again. Weather totals for the last 53 days are roughly 7.5” of rain, half a dozen hail storms, and until the past week, never more than 6 consecutive days of cutting. Looks like a big rain coming over the next week. I will be thankful for the chance to rest and the moisture should soften the ground up for fall seeding, hopefully giving us phenomenal conditions. Ned to get seed cleaned and drills hooked up and looked over as well as preplant spray on all the pulse stubble and probably one more pass on the chemfallow.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have not received any precipitation within the last week however, we have received .75 to 1.25 inches in the past 10 days.
Hate to complain, but hopefully the coming rain stays at an inch or less, anymore will make things too sticky for a while. We Have great soil moisture, just a tough crust from the past week of heat and wind. An Indian summer would be great to get projects done that got put off from harvest lasting twice as long as usual.
Planning on seeding Winter Wheat, Barley, Peas, Lentils, and Canola for the next growing year.
 

Fergus County - Robert Bold

No rain this week. Sounds a little out of place this year. Been a good year starting the last half of June. Even though we had a dry April and May, it was cool. We even got a second cutting of dryland hay this year which is not normal. Also, it was a bigger and better crop than the first cutting. At "The Gym" there is the winter wheat seeding discussion. Everyone is waiting for the soil temperature to drop to get some of the cool season weeds to sprout. With the low wheat prices, the discussion is how to cut back on expenses or not seed any at all. Chem fallow is being discussed as the cheapest and best alternative crop. Also, cutting back on expenses like crop inputs. The old saying, "Take care of the pennies (the small things) and the dollars will take care of themselves."  To offset that saying, my dad said "Take care of the dollars (the big picture) and the pennies will be there".  With the excellent soil profile moisture this year, it sure is tempting to seed a lot of winter wheat. For once we won't be breaking air seeder shanks. Hope everyone has a good week!
Moisture conditions have been good. We have not received any precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Hay this growing season.


Hill County - Eric Hanson

We finished up cutting the chickpeas that we could and 3 hours later we were in the drill putting in 2026 winter wheat. Harvest is not done, still a chunk of grass geeen chickpeas left, but the combine went in the shed this morning. It doesn’t need another inch of rain on it that they are calling for. It’s a mess like I’ve never seen. It’s going to be a chore to clean up. The seeding conditions could not be more ideal. Moisture is great. Fertilizer prices continue to raise the pucker factor as phosphate went from $906 to $939 last week. I suspect they will continue to climb as more drills get in the field. Still trying to catch up on spraying but things keep growing. So we keep pouring money out. Any excitement with near perfect seeding conditions is no where to be found. Every thing I read, hear, or see has no positives in this ag economy, all as I watch the next generation scratch in the dirt dreaming about farming one day. So I guess we march forward and try to hang on.
Moisture conditions have been good.
Planning on seeding Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Peas, and Garbanzos for the next growing year.
  

 

Judith Basin County - Greg Mathews

Will finish with second cutting on Monday or Tuesday. Reworked some SF last Friday and the chem fallow is hard and dry. Will wait to seed, looks like a lot of diseases in hailed on crops and the drought is turning them yellow. Will try to spray them out this week. The elevators are still taking a lot of grain in when they are open and not full, still some crops to be cut in the area but for the most part people are finished. No moisture this last week and the country is not green any more...looks like fall and things have dried up. Forecast is for some moisture first part of the week and hope they are right. Best to all and good luck at seeding.
Moisture conditions have been fair. We have not received any precipitation within the last week.
Planning on seeding Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, and Hay the next growing year.

Lewis & Clark County - Jake Merkel

Finished up harvest. Getting ready to start fall tillage and 3rd cutting.
Moisture conditions have been fair. 
Planning on seeding Spring Wheat, Barley, and Hay for the next growing season.
  

Teton County - Mitch Konen

I traded in the combine seat for a seat at the desk. I sure miss that combine seat.
The boys are busy cleaning up the equipment and getting them tucked away for the upcoming winter slumber.
Did do a little spraying on some ground that was greening up with weeds. Don't know where they are finding the moisture as I can't push a probe in the ground. Lest I say we are dry. Busy clearing off the desk of bills and trying to accumulate the years production reports.
Moisture conditions have been poor. We have not received any precipitation within the last week.
Always waiting for more moisture.
Planning on seeding Winter Wheat and Barley for the next growing season.
Winter Wheat is harvested. Barley is harvested.
 

September 3, 2025

Carter County - Michael Hansen

Got the combine going again...cut the barley. After the hail and all the rain got 20 bushel an acre in the bin. Was quite green yet but turned the fans on to cool it down. Ended up having 6 dollars a bushel into a crop that I could buy for 2.5 probably, so that’s good business. Was going to start desiccating the chickpeas but ended up with another 1.25 inches of rain so the fields will have to dry out again before I do that. Winter canola is coming up and if it doesn’t I will never do this again with as much rain as we’ve had. Poured concrete in the shop...reminded us all to be thankful we don’t have to do that everyday. Got a lot of sorghum baled this past week as well but the rain shut that project down for a bit. And also got two new grain bins set and anchored down.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received 1.25 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planted Winter Wheat, Durum, Barley, Garbanzos, Oats, and Hay this growing season.
 

Fergus County - Robert Bold

Another 3 day holiday weekend in the books. Went for Annette's class reunion on the Missouri by Cascade. Just beautiful weather. Talk around of winter wheat seeding. Moisture here is almost perfect. Soil temperature still pretty warm for seeding winter wheat. I suspect acres will be down due to price. There has been so much chart damage to the wheat market, it will take a long time to recover in addition to getting rid of at least 250 million bushels of carry out. Even though the $6 wheat futures are gone, corn is pushing $5 and beans are almost $11 for 26 crop. I see wheat export shipments are up 22% over last year. Good sign but for how long? We had .75 inches of rain since the last report. Went in the ground with no runoff. Can't believe how fast it dries up.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .75 inches 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

What an unbelievable fall. We ended up getting anywhere from 1.6-2.5 inches of rain last Friday on our different places. Unreal. We were predicted to get 1/10th so they missed the mark by a bit. Needless to say, we had plans on cutting chickpeas over the weekend so that was out of the question. They are greening up even more now. Starting to feel almost like a lost cause. The ones that are shelled on the ground are throwing sprouts and rooting down. When our winter wheat was mostly turned at the beginning of July we had received around 3” of rain for the year. We are now at 9-11” total depending on which place you are on. It’s incredibly green. We now have to fix washouts for the 2nd time this summer. Never dreamt we’d keep getting gully washers. So we wait. We are cleaning wheat and doing repairs because we can’t quite get in the field yet. Still hoping to start seeding this coming weekend or there about.
Moisture conditions have been excellent. We have received 1.6 - 2.5 inches of precipitation within the last week.
Planning on seeding Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Peas, and Garbanzos for the next gorwing year. 
  

  

Hill County - Trevor Wolery

Rain delay again last week pushed back the wrap up of harvest on Monday Labor Day night. We only recorded .27 inches at the farm but the towns of  Rudyard, Hingham, Gildford and Kremlin breaking records with 1.5 -3.5“ in certain isolated areas. Dirks sweet corn patch is going to end up with Iowa yields due to the late rains this summer and if anyone needs corn to can, Dirk is making deals! Seems like there won’t be enough days in the fall for the sprayer to keep up with the requirements and is honestly a little overwhelming at the moment. One load at a time and power thru is the daily mantra. Can’t even get motivated or excited to plant winter wheat in these awesome conditions but foresee something happening next week or so once we get the green bridge to go brown. Markets continuing to disappoint while we wait this out.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .27 inches of precipitation within the last week. 
Planning on seeding Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Peas, Lentils, Garbanzos, and Mustard for the next growing season.
 

Judith Basin County - Greg Mathews

Finished spraying SF on Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, will start swathing regrowth hay barley on Sunday, then swath some almost zeroed out barley that is unharvestable because of all the barley that grew up into the ripe barley with a lot of hail damage. It looks like a green spew coming out the back of the combine on the little that was cut. Could not get it below and stay 20 moisture, with lots of green kernels, looks like seeded twice about a month apart. Then on to the second cutting. Went to Great Falls on Friday and saw some WW and chickpeas that still was unharvested in Benchland area. Moore area SW still standing and some barley in areas. Got 0.24 rain on Friday and no rain the rest of the week and just a shower up on the bench to the north. This next week should see the combines slowing up a lot. Best to all and hope every one had a great Labor Day Weekend.
Moisture conditions have been good. We have received .24 inches of precipitation within the last week.
The big Labor Day storm did not show up, and did not hear of any flooding or big amounts of rain.
Planted Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Barley, and Hay this growing season.

Teton County - Levi Ostberg

We are focusing on haying at the moment.
Moisture conditions have been poor. 
Concerned about drought.
Planning on seeding Barley and Hay for the next growing season.
Winter Wheat is harvested. Spring Wheat is harvested. Barley is harvested.

Teton County - Mitch Konen

Finished harvest '25 last evening (9/3). Now we shift gears to start cleaning equipment for its slumbar until next season. Also time to start reviewing production records and planning for next year. Also time to get bin samples to the grain lab and find out the quality. Initial feelings is that this years crop is about 10-15% short of the five year average. Crop looks good, but will rely on the lab reports for final quality check. Hoping for some moisture while we ready for seeding winter wheat. Starting to focus on policy issues for the farm economy.
Moisture conditions have been poor. We have received .01 inches of precipitation within the last week.
We are still stuck in a drought here. Even though we are irrigated, we had just enough water to produce the crop, but there is no reserve in the subsoil and nothing in the topsoil. I tried pushing a probe into the ground to no avail.
Planning on seeding Winter Wheat and Barley for the next growing season.
Barley is harvested. 
  

 

 

 

Valley County - Tony Fast

Cleaning winter wheat seed.  Still have 25% of our crop to harvest yet.
Moisture conditions have been fair. We have not received any precipitation within the last week.
Planning on seeding Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, Durum, Peas, Garbanzos, and Soybeans for the next growing season.