The warm weather has given planting progress a boost across North Dakota. “All crops are being planted right now, but wheat and barley are the farthest along, and some areas were completely done the farther west you go and where you get into the dry pockets like Sheridan County,” said NDSU Extension Cropping Systems Specialist Jeff Stachler. “Further south along the South Dakota border, most of those counties are completely done planting barley and wheat and moving along with the corn.” With warmer weather, though, also comes weeds. “Emerging weeds like kochia and common lambsquarters, those two species are out there, and they’re growing quite well. Kochia is, I think, some of the densest I’ve seen.”
