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Our co-host David Woodruff has Jesper Hansen on again today talking sunflowers.   Let's listen in.   We have not even started sunflowers yet up home. I would assume by next week they'll probably start being ready and we also got flowers to go down in the Dakotas that I don't think is ready yet either.   Yeah, they're kind of a long season crop, aren't they? It seems to me like.   Yeah, you know we really like to get a good 20 degree night in order to mature nice and even.    That frost will take care of a whole lot of problems for you then.   That's correct, yeah. Are they any easier to thrash once they get down?   Yeah, once they're good and ready they go through pretty easy. What we have to watch out is the dust that we don't create fires on the combine. We have to blow the combines off every second or third round and that's not much fun.   Yeah, I had a neighbor that raised hemp and he had to stop every round and make sure the manifold was clear or else he had a fire starting to smolder and go. That oilseed dust is terrible.   So other than that you're not playing with a lot of mechanical problems or anything?   No, not at all. Everything's been going pretty well. We're just trying to get wrapped up here and then we'll start working on equipment probably in a month or so.   We're grateful for large blessings and small ones in proportion. Appreciate it and boy we sure ask the Lord's blessings on you and your guys and your equipment and the harvest before that oil dust starts to get to you.   Thank you very much and same to you.   Thank you.   Custom Harvester Jesper Hansen with our host David Woodruff.

Jesper Hansen, speaking from Scobey, Montana, said his crew is finishing soybean harvest at home and expects to be done by the next day. They have also been harvesting near the North Dakota border, with soybean yields around 30–40 bushels per acre. - The main concern is incoming weather: rain is expected Friday, followed by daytime temperatures dropping into the 30s and 40s next week. Because of this, they are hurrying to finish soybeans before conditions worsen. - Hansen said his crew in South Dakota finished soybeans 8–10 days earlier and has already moved strongly into corn harvest.

Our co-host David Woodruff has Eric Wolgemuth from Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania again today talking about that dryland corn in Kimball and some frost. Let's get into that conversation and find out more.   "I think this frost is pretty general and so it shut that stuff down which isn't you know not too bad really."   Kind of like normal then.   "Yeah so the season was kind of late but I would say that this killing frost wasn't really late."   Yeah.   "So it's been nice to have another couple weeks but it'll be all right."   Any blessing is a blessing you know.  I don't think we've had much of a killing frost here. Well we might have. I've been covering my tomatoes and then come out and it doesn't work and I tell people Murphy's law works over time on my place and follows me faithfully wherever I go so I know better cover them up and then it won't freeze. It didn't really like I think 30 degrees is about all it was 20.   "Yeah. I mean so it didn't really freeze the whole way to the ground but beans a little bit of frost can sure ding them."   They're a little ticklish.   "Yeah."   So now you said there was something about corn at Kimball. Is that irrigated corn?   "No it's some dry land that made it."   Now somebody I talked to in the last couple of days said oh yeah I got time for you Dave. It's raining. They had had more rain I think it was in western Iowa. They'd had more rain in the month of September than we get over a two-year period up here in western Canada and so he had time to talk to me and he said it wasn't bad. What do you got? Oh maybe a quarter inch and I go quarter inch is a real blessing to us.   That's going to do it for today's Harvest USA report. There's more on the web at harvestusareport.com. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I'm Brian Hale.

Eric Wolgemuth of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, gave an update on harvest progress both at home and in western Kansas. Most of the combines are back in Pennsylvania, with one still operating in Kansas near Sharon Springs and in Kimball, Nebraska. Harvest in Kansas is underway, though some corn had been waiting to dry down, and Eric estimated they were still a couple of weeks from finishing there if weather remains favorable. In Pennsylvania, harvest is in full swing. They are currently harvesting corn, and full-season soybeans are mostly finished. Double-crop soybeans, planted after small grains like wheat and barley, are still ahead. Eric explained that double-cropping is common in the area, with barley harvested first because it matures earlier, followed by wheat, and then soybeans planted behind both. The discussion also covered crop maturity and frost. Eric said the double-crop beans were generally close to maturity when a recent killing frost hit. While the growing season had been somewhat late, the frost was not unusually late and likely only shortened the season slightly. He noted that soybeans can be affected by even light frost, but overall the crop appeared to be in reasonably good shape. The conversation ended with a brief comparison of rainfall in different regions and a mention that the corn near Kimball was dryland corn that had survived. The host closed by wishing Eric and his crew safety and success for the remainder of harvest.

The conversation begins with a discussion on recent weather changes, significantly impacting harvesting in agricultural areas. Weather conditions in Bear Lake and Woodruff, Utah, including some talk of snow and prevalent dry conditions that have affected the water supply, are mentioned. The lack of sufficient rainfall and reliance on upcoming storms for water supply are key issues for farmers, affecting feed availability for livestock.

Van Driesten Harvesting has been going hard on soybeans for days now. They also caught some fabulous views. And Krumbach Harvesting is getting after it, as well as Novak, Novak's in the beans.   Are you interested in learning more about the New World Screw Worm and how it can affect your livestock? Read the feature story from Nebraska Department of Agriculture, found right there on our Harvest USA Facebook page.    Heil Harvesting says, if you're not working on your sickle, are you even swathing? Our 40 foot headers each had brand new sickles going into the millet season, they said, so we actually aren't working on them much at all. But even so, we still do work on them sometimes. This was just a broken knife section and easily repaired. They'll soon be looking for more fields to put our swathers into. Proso millet season doesn't last forever.  If you have some failed corn or milo that you're wanting to swath and bale this fall, get in touch with Hale Harvesting LLC. Don't let that failed crop go to waste. They can leave tall stubble and or standing strips to catch the snow and help the wind erosion. That was from Heil Harvesting.    The National Potato Production was down in 2025. Pacific Northwest Ag Network is asking, what do the Northwest numbers look like for you? We'll have more information in the future on this year's potato harvest.   And Iowa farmers are getting a little more breathing room at the pump as the harvest rolls on. A temporary dyed diesel rule has now been expanded to cover even more agricultural products being hauled on Iowa roads. Farmers, what are you seeing out there? How does it affect you in your state? Let us know right there on our Harvest USA Facebook page where you'll find these stories and more.   That's going to do it for today's Harvest USA report. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I'm Brian Hale.

Let's find out what's going on in the harvest world. Looks like our host David Woodruff has Kip Campbell from Bancroft, Idaho on the phone. Let's check in.   This is part of a conversation where they're talking about high nitrate content and we found it interesting. Let's listen in. So have you ever had nitrates on frozen alfalfa? No, I've never had an issue with it.   I'd never heard of it and I talked to my neighbor and said, oh yeah, I have heard of it once. Really? And my son was asking me about, what about my grass? Do you think we're going to have nitrates? I said, well, I've never heard of it in grass. Mostly cereal grains, oats and things like that.   Yes, that's what I've heard of them. There's more wheat and oats and barley. The stress seems to bring the nitrates up.   Yeah, which this year has been dry enough and hot enough that it's a possibility. There could be some stress there. Yeah, and I was told as long as you don't feed it straight, like you said, cereal type out hay, the grain hay, you'll be okay.   If I do have an oat hay or a wheat hay, I just feed alfalfa with it and mix it. Right, yeah, I had that happen. It wasn't from freezing, it was from too much hog manure fertilizing it.   How? It stressed the plant like crazy and boy, we started popping out dead hairless little calves like crazy. I pulled that stuff and started mixing it off with others and it helped, but more than half my herd came up empty, not pregnant. Talking crops and cattle today with our host David L. Woodruff and our guest Kip Campbell.   That's going to do it for today's Harvest USA report. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I'm Brian Hale.

Farming Operations: Kip Campbell from Bancroft, Idaho, is involved primarily in cattle farming, with no grain cultivation. He is currently setting up hot wire fencing to pasture cows on fields including alfalfa and orchard grass, which do not grow tall enough for a third cut in the fall. Weather Impacts: The year has been characterized by a dry spring and summer, which adversely affected the pasture yield, followed by a wet fall. Such unpredictable weather patterns influence the farming operations and yield. Pasture Management: Campbell takes precautions against bloat in cattle pastured on alfalfa by using bloat-preventing blocks containing a surfactant that breaks down gas-forming bubbles.

Let's find out what's going on in the harvest world. Neumiller Harvesting is in North Dakota reporting that the soybean harvest is in full swing across North Dakota. We got some great pictures there on our Harvest USA Facebook page.   Thacker Harvesting reports that their grain cart operator Brayden is doing a great job on the Saskatchewan crew, keeping the combines rolling the last two weeks up there.   Heil Harvesting LLC had a good point. They wrote, there's a lot of concern about the growing season that the millet hadn't gotten enough moisture to actually produce grain, and sadly many fields did not. Now that the millet really doesn't need rain, the annual monsoon showers have begun. We've been blessed so far to be in areas of dry weather so the swathers can keep rolling. While every farmer in this area is thinking of planting next year's wheat crop and desperately needs rain, those with millet in the field get pretty anxious when the clouds start to form. The hard rain and gusty winds associated with these storms can knock nearly ripe millet seeds out of the plant heads and scatter them on the ground where they're lost. That is extremely disappointing and discouraging, and it's a major reason that millet swathing is so time critical. Laying the crop in the window protects it from that type of loss. When the millet's ready, it has to go down. A little educational information there from Heil Harvesting LLC.   The National Association of Wheat Growers CEO attended North American Millers Association's annual meeting this week to provide an update on the wheat industry, highlight NOG's advocacy efforts, and discuss how millers and wheat growers can work together to strengthen and advance the wheat industry. Another opportunity to connect with industry partners and continue building collaboration across the wheat value chain.   That's going to do it for today's Harvest USA report. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I'm Brian Hale.