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Dry weather allows South Dakota planting to progress

It’s dry in South Dakota. Outside of a little precipitation in the western third and southeast corner, most of the week was fit for fieldwork. Topsoil moisture 74 percent short to adequate.  There is no surplus moisture.

But it put corn planting ahead.  It’s 16 percent done. Winter wheat 67 fair to good.  Eighty-four percent of the oats and 86 percent of the spring wheat are plant.  Both well ahead of average.

Calving is 78 percent complete. Lambing is 88 percent complete. Hay and roughage supplies 89 percent adequate to surplus and stock water supplies are 61 percent adequate to surplus.