LINCOLN, Neb. (RFD-TV) — Soybean growers across parts of farm country are still working to recover after wet weather last month.
University of Nebraska agriculture professor Jeff Peterson says the current conditions have caused discoloration in some crops.
“What I get concerned about is because there will be areas up in North Dakota, south to go to parts of Minnesota, also in the Eastern Corn Belt where their beans are fine, but it appears to be the areas where we had the heavy rains. We had the high humidity in front of that in August, and then we had the heavy rains that happened in September. It appeared in many cases where, in most cases, where we had the fungus, which has caused the purple-stain, the mottled soybeans, which are then getting counted to the SBOC.”
Despite the concerns, Peterson says soybean growers who plan to crush their beans will likely be in good shape and that most of the trouble will come when trying to sell the beans through export channels.
