Speaking at the AgCountry Farm Credit Services AgFocus Conference, Nutrien Ag Solutions Atmospheric Scientist Eric Snodgrass said northern states have seen an increase in the length of its frost-free season. That allows regional farmers to be more aggressive with early planting. “Overall, since 1980, we’re up on average about three inches (per year) with a lot of it’s coming from big one-off events, but there’s more water over that whole time period,” said Snodgrass. “You could say that our weather systems could be profiled by the conditions we may get in central and southern Minnesota or parts of southeastern South Dakota or even western Iowa. That kind of change is overall a net benefit to growing crops in this area.”
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