IEM Daily Feature
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Limited planting progress
Posted: 30 Apr 2013 05:39 AM
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.
Voting:
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Tags: 2013 corn
Voting:
Good = 44
Bad = 7
Tags: 2013 corn