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An Eastern Michigan farmer says a week of warm, dry weather helped him wrap up planting.

Peter Maxwell grows corn, soybeans, sugarbeets and pumpkins in Hope, Michigan. He tells Brownfield sugarbeets were planted later than normal, but he made his goal of getting corn and soybeans in by the end of last week.  “The sugarbeet crop has had some, maybe, subpar stands.  It’s been cold and wet so emergence has been a little slow.”

Also a sugarbeet seed salesman, Maxwell says more growers have needed to replant sugarbeets this year than average. 

Continue reading Major push on planting in Michigan at Brownfield Ag News.