mn guys getting nervous?

Hi guys,
Are any of you Minnesota guys getting nervous about getting the crops out. Im a starting to get concerned about getting the soybeans out. There is a nice weather window now, but there is so much mud that the fields are almost impossible to harvest. The long range weather forecast doesn't look good either. Cloudy and showery on and off for the next 3 weeks. If this keeps up, it might be Christmas before we get the beans off. By then we'll have 2 feet of snow. What a year it has been

Looks bad, my friend Jeff didnt get any silage up this year.

Thankfully I'm up by Clearwater, south of St. Cloud, but I feel sorry for the guys down south that had a foot of rain.
Thinking of the rain/snow ratio, think if we had that rain during an early cold snap....man that could have been five feet of snow.

I have mostly sand, so I'm mostly dried out.

Best of luck southern Mn guys.

I assume many are nervous about beans... we've been hit with rain for 3 weeks - and really got a lot last week (about 3-6 inches of the wet stuff in SE MN for much of the area... and YES - some areas got 12-14 inches).

There has to be a lot of muddy areas out there yet - but some are rolling on bean harvest. I know of at least 3 guys combining the last couple of days. They must just be avoiding the "swimming holes" in the fields.

I was working in Duluth this week, it is really wet all the way up.

It will freeze up eventually, we often had to wait for the ground to freeze to get crops out back in the day. Really bad to be combining beans and corn in January, but you do what you have to do.

Lot of wet spots here in Madison, but they are taking the beans and some corn out like crazy.

On the northern edge of the floods, was a lot worse for them.

It is common for me to start harvest on my wife's birthday, which is tomorrow. So we aren't really late yet. We have had some really nice falls in the past decade, so some folk expanded and depend on a long fall, others are just used to it. We are not behind at this point, not at all. Maybe be we are getting an average maker, but at this point it's about normal.

Few bto are taking out corn, I hear some are hauling 30+% moisture corn out of the field. And leaving a whole lot of companion and ruts, even with tracked combines and carts. I'm glad I don't have to do that to get done. Yet anyhow.

My corn tested 22 and 25% hand shelled, add 2 points to that for a wagon full typically. That's a little wet. Beans I have a couple fields really close, most are a week off. But it is so humid, so much moisture in the ground, that it just isn't drying them down either.

Been nice to see the sun 3 out of 4 days, that must be a record for this year. Was very foggy this morning but the sun finally broke through. The grass in the yard is still wet, out in the field it might be dried off but just barely, not any more than just off at one in the afternoon.

Might be a slow fall, but not really out of the normal yet.

Paul

Combining like mad here near Fergus Falls.

Rick

trying to combine corn and beans with snow on the ground in january is a major pain first you have the snow then the cold it seems like things break lots faster

1985 I started chopping silage with a 2470 FWD on Oct 25. Small loads, switched wagons on the road cuz a 4430 would not pull them out of the field. Some dairies by Elrosa, Lake Henry did not get any cut. We"re a half hour west of Clearwater (Nelson"s rolls!) and the clay fields are beyond wet. My renter is pricing combne tracks.