Rushed harvest season causes busy days at the soybean plant

VOLGA, S.D. — Bean harvest in South Dakota has been met with weeks of rain, causing a lot of stress for the farmers. We had like three weeks of rain and there were beans ready. So it was very stressful for us, and the farmer, not being able to get in the field, said Kari VanderWal, soybean procurement manager at South Dakota Soybean Processors. Kari VanderWal, soybean procurement manager at South Dakota Soybean Processors. Ariana Schumacher / Agweek South Dakota Soybean Processors owns soybean plants in Volga and St. Lawrence. South Dakota Soybean Processors also jointly owns the High Plains Processing plant in Mitchell with BP Products North America Inc. On Oct. 2, the processing plant in Volga, South Dakota, started seeing new crop soybeans arriving, and it got busy quickly. Now that it s going, it s going fast the flow has been extremely steady, said Tom Kersting, CEO of South Dakota Soybean Processors. Tom Kersting, CEO of South Dakota