The calendar is about to turn into May, but nearly all of the state's agricultural ground has yet to be planted. The wet and cold April has created two problems for farmers. Fields are too wet to transverse with equipment and the soil is too cold to support growth. The featured chart presents the weekly USDA corn crop planting progress report. Only a few years since 1979 have been as slow as this year. Our recent few days of warm and mostly dry weather has allowed some to get started, but the weather is about to turn very cold and wet for early May.

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