Two-Week Window Allowed Crop to Get Planted

The crop in western Minnesota is ahead of schedule. During Crop Watch, AgCountry Farm Credit Services Vice President of Insurance and Customer Education, Rob Fronning said farmers took advantage of a two-week window of hot, dry weather to get the majority of seed in the ground. “The most recent rains that we received here had it been a week earlier would have been really bad,” said Fronning. “For the most part, a lot of people are wrapped up. There are isolated cases where they may have been a little wet, but this moisture was needed.” Fronning is based in Fergus Falls.