Soil crusting causing some emergence concerns

A Midwest farmer says he’s seeing scattered soil crusting in his area causing some emergence concerns.

KJ Johnson farms in east-central Illinois.

“You can see that there are some crops that are already up and look perfect,” he said. “But if guys push the issue, yes there’s some crusting going on.”

He tells Brownfield some farmers might have ‘jumped the gun’ and started planting before fields were dry enough.

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