Despite Friday morning’s rainfall, the region is still well under average for rainfall this time of year. With dry, hot conditions for the foreseeable future, that’s unsettling for area farmers.
Peter Sexton is the Southeast South Dakota Research Farm Sustainable Cropping Systems Specialist, and he says there isn’t much for reserve moisture in the soil currently…
Sexton says farmers are in a stress survival mode at this point, comparable to 2012…
Temperatures are forecasted to be in the mid-nineties for the entire week with no chances of rain.
