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Southwest Minnesota farmer says soybeans have “really erratic emergence”

A southwest Minnesota farmer has finished putting his 2023 crop in.

Bob Worth grows corn and soybeans in Lincoln County and tells Brownfield the planting season started late.

“In some ways it’s late, but I guess the norm now the last couple three years has been May. We started May 5th, it was dry. The ground really dried out in a hurry even with all the snow that we had, it really dried out. And the ground worked up beautifully.”

He says crops are emerging and his corn looks good.

“I mean it was even, it’s got a really nice color. The soybeans, when we put them in it was just getting drier and drier, and we put beans in dry dirt. So we have really erratic emergence.”

Worth is the current president of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association and says some soybeans are quite big already while others are just “popping out of the ground.”