Jeff Kloucek finished planting in early May. The Scotland, South Dakota farmer completed the first phase of the 2025 season with a few minor rain delays, having much of his soybean crop planted from mid-to-late April. Those earliest-planted soybeans, in Kloucek’s words, “look fantastic.”
“Everything that I’ve seen so far, the earlier-planted acres look way better than stuff that’s gotten planted from that May 2nd through the 10th,” said Kloucek. “Those fields are struggling a little bit just with the weather we’ve had.”
According to Kloucek, that weather turned hot and windy, but earlier-planted soybeans were already off to a good start, seeing the benefit of some well-timed showers.
“It turned out really well,” he said, referring to the beans planted earlier. “We caught some nice rains shortly after a lot of that April stuff got put in the ground to get the moisture to the seed if there was some planted in some dry pockets and get herbicides activated. So those stands came up really nice.”
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