In Minnesota’s Norman County, Corey Hanson is busy spraying corn and wheat, applying fertilizer, and baling hay. Hanson is catching up after a late start to the season. “The hard pounding rain, especially the rain the last week of April, kind of sealed our ground up and we had to work some of our fields six or seven times,” Hanson told RRFN. “We were just kind of nurturing it along so it didn’t ball up and mud up. Wedid get it done, it just it took a lot of fuel and a lot of extra time.” The drought is continuing to impact the pasture ground. “The last two years, we were in $-4 drought and the pastures were browned up at this time with no grass. This year the native grass pastures are not coming back for our cattle. We’re having to stock them lighter and had to get rid of some cows.”
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