The planting season is wrapping up in South Dakota in all but a few pockets in the southeast where farmers have struggled due to excessive moisture. The latest USDA crop progress report shows 98-percent of the corn and 99-percent of the soybeans are planted in the state. Doug Hanson, who farms near Elk Point, just finished up planting soybeans last week. He says this is the second year the planting season has been delayed for him.

Hanson was driving around the wet spots yet in the last soybean fields he planted and he’ll have to replant some corn. This will ultimately cut his yields.

But yield will also be lost because he had to change to shorter season seed maturities.

While Hanson’s farm is too wet, much of South Dakota is too dry and Monday’s crop ratings reflect that and the excessive heat. The state’s corn crop was rated at 45-percent good to excellent, a drop of 17-percent last week. Soybeans were only 43-percent good to excellent.