The Red River Farm Network Crop Watch tour made a stop at the Jake Thompson farm near Barnesville, Minnesota. “This probably was one of the better springs we’ve had in a really long time,” said Thompson. “The ground was mellow. It was nice conditions to plant in. We were able to hop from one thing to the next to the next to the next, to the point where we got a couple different crops in the ground with some pretty good acres and some spraying done all in a day, which is unusual.”Despite wind-related spraying delays and some winterkill in alfalfa, Thompson says the recent rain was just what fields needed after extreme heat dried out the topsoil. Thompson is president of the Minnesota State Cattlemen’s Association.
