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Southeast Minnesota farmer enjoyed pretty smooth planting season

A southeast Minnesota corn and soybean farmer says the 2017 planting season went pretty smoothly.

Ryan Buck of Goodhue County says he started planting corn April 24th.

“We planted Sunday, Monday, and early Tuesday morning.  Then we stopped and got that week of cold, wet weather.”

He says planting resumed around May fifth.

“And we were able to keep on going until that Friday before Mother’s Day, and finished everything up (including soybeans).”

Buck tells Brownfield there was some soil crusting during a warm week in mid-May.

“It looked like with the early corn maybe we’d have to rotary hoe some of that when it got hot and dry.  Things were starting to kind of crust over.  But we caught a shot of rain Tuesday night into Wednesday (of that week) and (the rain) helped that stuff along.”

Overall, Buck says he’s been really pleased with emergence and is hoping for a return of warm and dry conditions.