Warm and dry weather last week allowed Minnesota farmers to finish planting as heat advanced crop development.
The USDA says with nearly all of the state’s corn acreage now emerged, soybean planting reached 99 percent complete as of Sunday.
The condition of both crops remains above the national average, with 78 percent of corn and soybeans in the good to excellent category.
With planting behind him, west-central Minnesota farmer Chad Willis says it was a challenging spring.
Continue reading Soybean planting wraps up in Minnesota at Brownfield Ag News.
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