A Long Planting Season

The planting season stretched out for nearly three months. Fred Lukens, who farms at Aneta, North Dakota, beat the rain and parked his planter on June 10. “We started planting around the 20th of April and got about 500 acres of barley in before it started raining and it’s been hit and miss ever since,” said Lukens. “On the 7th of June, we still had a third of our farm left to plant and we just finished planting (Monday), but we got it in before the big rain so we’ll cross our fingers and hope we don’t get an early frost.”