Today is the final corn planting date for crop insurance in North Dakota. Farmers can start filing for prevent plant on Tuesday. In the McVille area, Ihry Insurance agent Reed Ihry says there’s been lots of battles trying to get crop in the ground. “We are going to have a bunch of prevent plant corn in my area; no question about it. Everyone is trying to get what they can in, but we haven’t had lots of warm weather,”explains Ihry. “There’s also corn that needs to be harvested in our area.” Prevent plant could be the story for many in the state this year. “The prevent plant acres may be higher than anyone envisioned, but it depends on how many soybeans can get in the ground if farmers decide to keep planting.” In the northern part of the state, Ihry says the next target planting date will be May 31 or June 5 for spring wheat. Soybeans have a final planting date of June 10.
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