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Minnesota seeing greatest crop situation scores in virtually a decade
An extension crops educator says crop situation scores in Minnesota are the most effective they’ve been in practically a decade.
Dave Nicolai with the College of Minnesota tells Brownfield USDA considers 75 p.c of corn and 73 p.c of soybeans within the state in good to glorious situation.
“In the event you look again on the information from numerous years in the past, from what they inform us corn presently has the very best ranking for this time of the yr since 2016. In order that’s fairly outstanding when it comes to all of the ups and downs we had this spring, so issues are wanting superb.”
Regardless of the robust scores, he says some components of Minnesota have obtained an excessive amount of rain.
“Primarily west-central Minnesota, a few of southwest Minnesota as properly. These are the areas that we had predominantly loads of rainfall.”
The newest weekly crop report exhibits 5 p.c of corn at dent stage, on par with the five-year common.
Seventy p.c of soybeans are setting pods, in comparison with 77 p.c usually.
