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Wisconsin field work catching up, crop progress good

With less than an inch of new rain in most parts of the state, Wisconsin farmers were able to get a lot of fieldwork completed last week.  The USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service says weather allowed farmers in the fields for five days, allowing them to catch up on spring tillage and much of the rain-delayed planting.

Corn planting is 91% complete, and more than half of the corn has emerged.  Seventy-three percent of the soybean acres are planted, and 34% has emerged.

Potatoes are rated 72% good to excellent.  More than half of the first-crop alfalfa hay has been harvested, and 75% of the state’s hay is in good to excellent condition.