Harvest in the Southeast is rapidly wrapping up as the seasons are set to change soon.

Despite a bump up in temperatures over the weekend, the average conditions are getting colder and colder, so luckily most farmers have their crops out of the ground and into the bins.

Most grains, pulses, and other fields have been harvested, with some farmers just finishing up the last bits of their crops.

Now, only a couple types of crops are left - with flax and soybeans being worked on in the Southeast.

Agronomist Edgar Hammermeister says he's expecting the flax to be done relatively soon.

"The flax harvest is nearing completion. It'll be in the high 90s. With the nice weather that's been forecasted here for the weekend, it wouldn't surprise me if most guys finish up here for the weekend."

That should be quickly followed up by soybeans, which Hammermeister says likely won't last long past next week.

"Soybeans are nicely started, and even those are well ahead of average harvest progress," said Hammermeister, "Through the weekend or within the next week for sure the soybean harvest should be largely complete as well."

The end of harvest coincides with a start to cooler conditions - frost is likely to appear soon, though Hammermeister says that at the stage the crops are in, that's not a bad thing.

"At this stage, frost won't be damaging any of the crop. Everything is mature enough that there is absolutely minimal risk to hurting the crop that way," said Hammermesiter, "Actually, for any later stuff, it might even enhance dry down of stems and help with the threshing the combine needs to do."

"What the frost will do is it will be signaling to the perennial wheat that it's time to be working hard to store nutrients in the roots and that's a prime opportunity for farmers to apply a herbicide to control those weeds for next year."

Hammermeister is also focused on getting more seed into the ground - he's planting winter wheat that'll hopefully get some moisture this fall.

"Winter wheat seeding, for anyone who is curious to do that, has probably been underway already. Myself, I got some in and this weekend we'll be putting in the last of it," said Hammermeister, "We should have reasonable moisture yet to get that started, and I think the outlook for the fall is for an open fall so the winter cereals should establish well going into freeze-up."