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A flip in the weather changes prevent plant story

A farmer and market analyst in northeastern South Dakota says the prevent plant story has shifted slightly in the Northern Plains as field conditions improved.

A heavy snowpack and cool spring temperatures were common as spring began in the north and conditions started improving in May.

DuWayne Bosse says planting season was delayed and he started planting corn May 25, the final planting date.

“Farmers wanted to plant the crop instead of taking prevent plant. However, it was an option, because it was wet enough for some,” he says. “Farmers pushed it, but if it would have rained more, we would have taken the option.”

Bosse says the situation is not as bad as it could have been.

“I talked to clients who were 600 or 800 acres short on the crop and we’re 400 acres short. There will be prevent plant, but not as much as what was expected.”

He is still planting soybeans as June begins and Bosse says he should be done by the June 10 planting date.