Bean harvest is well underway and will be 50% done by the end of this week. Yields are down 10 to 15% due to  hot and windy August during flowering and pod set. Weed pressure has been heavy particularly in the beans and sugar beets. There is more Palmer Amaranth every year. Early sugarbeet harvest is underway and it looks like an above average crop this year averaging 32+ tons per acre with good sugar content. We had half to three quarters inch of rain with some snow which helped some. We could have certainly used more to get the very dry wheat ground some moisture. About 40% of the winter wheat in our area has been planted. We did have a killing frost over much of the northern Panhandle which finished the corn. Corn was not completely mature but fairly close. Some of the dryland corn areas are almost ready to harvest but yields will be very low due to the drought conditions.