This year’s drought that has hit a large part of the Northern Plains including South Dakota has impacted the small grains worst than the row crops so far. SDSU Extension Field Agronomist David Karki says so far corn and soybeans are hanging in there but need more rain soon.

He says the small grains have gotten hit the hardest from the drought.

Karki says there’s very little producers can do in the short term. He says the no-till seems to be faring better than tilled crops.

Karki says it’ll be critical to get rain in the next couple of week with corn getting into its pollination phase. The latest USDA Crop report showed Corn rated only 26 percent good or excellent in South Dakota with Soybeans at 24 percent.