In the Bremen/New Rockford, North Dakota area, Donny Allmarus says the planting season started slow, but progress was made this past week. “Corn is pretty much done. If they’re planting corn, they’re just planting early corn to finish out a field. There are guys done with soybeans and others who are just getting going. In this area, there’s a lot of pinto beans and the economics looks strong for pinto beans so guys are trying to get pinto beans in first and than they’ll go to soybeans.” Allmarus is also in the seed business. Unfortunately, about 40 percent of the seed corn was returned this spring. “That’s the most we’ve ever done since I’ve been doing this.”