With as soggy weather conditions as we’ve had last week, it hasn’t been too favorable for farmers across the state to do much of any harvesting.

Rippey area farmer John Muir says all the rain he endured last week made his crop fields much more of a challenge, especially turning harvest season into more of a guessing game of when to get the combines back into the fields.

“Well at this point the biggest issue is if you can even do it or if you get stuck. A secondary concern is the (soil) compaction that happens in those conditions. Right now we’re getting to the point if we can just get the crop out, then the frost through the winter can fix the compaction problems, and there’s healing the soil does just through the natural change of frost and thawing. Right now just being able to get out into the field and physically get it out is the biggest question.”

Muir notes that if it hadn’t been for the snow on Sunday, conditions would have been better to start harvest back up earlier this week.

“The problem with snow is then it has to melt, then it’s got to dry out after it melts. I’d say we’re at least three maybe four days, if we have good conditions, from not being nervous everytime you go across the field.”

Muir adds that he’s got about 50-percent of his soybeans harvested and about 10-percent of corn.