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southern MN | A few days ago, I was thinking as harvest moves north, we will find near record yields here in southern MN, one of the few 'garden spots' this year. Crop was drying very well, and we were a week or so from a tad damp but near perfect harvest conditions, be pulling a huge crop out of the field very rapidly.
Then came the rains of the past 24 hours, and whatever comes in the next 24 hours.
These 3-10 inch rainfalls are covering pretty much the 'corn belt' of high yields in southern MN, just north of I-90 across the state.
This is going to really mess up harvest, slow us way, way down, much more loss to drowning, stalk rot, the hail of the past week, etc.
A week ago I thought our possible harvest pace around 'here' would be a damper on grain prices.
Now - hum. Things are going to be slow and backwards. Crop sure got worse in quality & harvestability.
I'm sure we will end up harvesting most all of it someday, but - I think the market affect has changed in this 48 hour period?
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rain in Minnesota
