Trent Brandenburg is about two days’ field work away from finishing his soybean harvest. He decided to harvest his soybean crop before starting on his corn harvest. Two weeks ago the moisture content of his corn was 36%, way too high to store.

Trent Brandenburg expects to begin picking corn on September 10, depending on the weather. Recent rains have helped his soybean pod fill, “but we could use some more,” he added hopefully, but then admitting that the next rain might be too late, as the pods are “beginning to turn.”

Trent Brandenburg is pleased with his corn and soybean crops’ recovery from a challenging start to the crop year. “You can’t see the holes,” he observed, referring to how the crops have developed enough to mask some smaller ponded areas.

Trent Brandenburg finished up his soybean replants just last week (third week in June) because “that last pond just wouldn’t dry out.” He estimates his total corn and soybean replanting at 5 to 10 per cent of his acreage, “higher than I thought.”