Corn planting running behind, Farm Analyst says crop potential is not lost
Warmer temperatures have allowed farmers to get in the field over the last week, but there remains a lot of spring planting to be done. Farm Management Analyst Kent Thiesse says planting progress varies across the listening area. "The southern two tiers of counties in Minnesota, northern two tiers of counties in Iowa are were the planting progress has been the slowest," says Thiesse. "I had an opportunity to travel down to Fairmont, the further you got south the planting progress was a lot less. Probably 10 to maybe 15, 20-percent of the corn planted down that direction. You get up [...]