Warm Weather Boosts Crop Progress

Farmers across west-central Minnesota are seeing improvements in corn and soybean fields after a stretch of warmer weather. “There were fields that were pretty green even on Tuesday, and by Wednesday morning, they had turned and they started to die,” said Rick Swenson, lead agronomist, Peterson Farms Seed. While some mold and leaf issues remain in scattered fields, Swenson says overall conditions are holding up better than expected. “All things considered, how humid we were, I think we’re better off than I thought we were going to be.”