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Planting delays in southwest corner of Minnesota

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Rain has slowed planting in the southwest corner of Minnesota.

James Willers grows corn and soybeans near Beaver Creek, a town located within ten miles of both the South Dakota and Iowa borders.

Although corn planting progress statewide has eclipsed the halfway point according to USDA, Willers says his area is probably only 20 percent complete.

“In the middle of April we started putting on some fertilizer and working some ground and that was all working good.  And then it started raining on the 18th of April and we’ve been wet.  We have about two days of planting done around here.”

He tells Brownfield roughly 30 percent of his intended corn acres were planted within that two day window.

It could be a few days before Willers is back in the field.

“We had 1.4 inches last night and probably .6 to .7 inches Sunday night as well as the previous Wednesday.  And on the Monday before that we had nearly an inch.”

Willers says normally he’d be finishing up corn planting by now, and is planning to move right into soybeans as long as conditions are fit.

 

 

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