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There have been a lot of beans going out of the fields around here this week. How about other areas?

A few guys have cut the beans that got planted early...here most beans haven't even started to turn yet..

The early planted beans here are almost ready to combine, and I have seen a few fields that were cut. Most of the soybeans grown here are the doublecrop beans, planted after the wheat was cut. They are still green, and have been hurt by the last month of dry weather.

I have seen several bean fields cut, and a lot more losing leaves. Not as many beans grown here as there used to be, as corn and rice is the current rotation preferred by most. They do throw beans every so often but not yearly. Used to be a lot of milo grown but not any more. You do see a field once in a while, but not like years past. miles

I made a 200+/- mile crop watch road trip last Thursday. About 15% of the corn and soybeans looks dry enough to harvest, but most is still too green. Saw 1 milo field, maybe 80 acres. It was a wet Spring here, so a lot of crops went in later than usual and won't be ready to harvest on the usual schedule. We saw a couple of farmers cutting end rows in corn fields and a couple cutting soybeans, but not more than 5 or 6 combines in action. If more farmers were cutting soybeans there would have been obvious dust clouds.

The Missouri River is still flooding a lot of low ground such that most of the bridges between Omaha and St.Joe, MO, are closed or have narrow, 12', lane restrictions. A guy who works for UPRR told me that they are staging more than 10,000 grain cars to store grain when the elevators and bins get full.

Rain here again, no bean combining for a while.

Saw the first ones coming off, here, today. Dust was a flyin'......……….!!

Took a road trip yesterday to Reelfoot Lake in the northwest corner of Tennessee, about 2 1/2 hours from me. I'd say that at least a 1/3 of the beans have been cut, as well as most of the corn has been shelled. There is also cotton grown in that area, and some of it had been picked. Combines were running everywhere, and I saw some good crops, and some that appeared to have been drowned out at some point.

Still wet here.

Although we are in somewhat of a drought, I've seen it drier, and seen things suffer much worse. My pastures have held up much better than I'd have thought possible. The one crop that has hurt more than any others has been the soybeans that were planted after wheat. They were in and stage where they start to make beans, and they have suffered.

Things roared to a halt here with the coming of the monsoon.