It’s been a very different spring in the Red River Valley. “You can go by one field and someone is planting corn and in the next field, someone is combing corn,” said Paul Coppin, CEO, Valley United Cooperative. There will be prevent plant corn in the Reynolds, North Dakota area. Coppin estimates the area lost about 50 percent of the potential corn acres because of the wet conditions and unharvested acres. However, the last few days have been good for planting progress. “I think they can pretty much get everything in they intended to. There’s not much rain in the forecast until Thursday. The sugarbeets and wheat are planted. Farmers are working on dry beans and soybeans. Even though we got a slower start, it’s been an ok run the last two weeks.”
News Categories
Latest RRFN Podcasts
Subscribe to RRFN
Get a weekly digest from RRFN to stay up-to-date on all the latest news in agriculture.