Improving weather driving crop progress in Minnesota

Our reluctant spring of 2022 has brought on delays in planting this 12 months.

However drier climate previously week has helped farmers get into the fields extra typically previously week. And this week’s Minnesota crop report exhibits progress in planting.

Monday’s Minnesota crop report exhibits 60 % of corn has now been planted in Minnesota. That’s an enormous enhance from the 35 % within the floor as of final week. Final 12 months right now, almost one hundred pc of all Minnesota corn was already within the floor. The 5-year common for this date is 86 %.

Temperatures throughout Minnesota final week ran barely cooler than common in most areas. However most of Minnesota picked up lower than .50” of rain permitting fields to dry out some. Heavier rainfall favored southeast components of Minnesota.

Right here’s some extra granular element on crop progress from this week’s Minnesota Crop Report.

Average climate circumstances allowed farmers 3.7 days appropriate for fieldwork throughout the week ending Might 22, 2022, in line with USDA’s Nationwide Agricultural Statistics Service.

An extra of moisture within the floor continued to delay fieldwork in lots of areas. Topsoil moisture provides had been rated 0 % very quick, 2 % quick, 60 % satisfactory, and 38 % surplus. Subsoil moisture provides had been rated 0 % very quick, 5 % quick, 64 % satisfactory, and 31 % surplus.

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Corn planting reached 60 % full, 20 days behind final 12 months and 10 days behind the 5-year common. Corn emergence reached 24 %. Soybean planting was 32 % full, 18 days behind final 12 months, and 11 days behind the 5-year common. Soybean emergence reached 7 %.

Forecast: Hotter days forward

Hotter temperatures over the following week ought to assist jump-start crops. Highs will attain the 70s to close 80 levels by this weekend throughout southern Minnesota.