Planting behind in Northern Minnesota and North Dakota

Planting progress is behind in northern Minnesota and North Dakota.

Channel technical agronomist Derek Crompton is based in the Fargo/Moorhead area and says there was near-record snowfall this winter.

“And I think a lot of us anticipated ‘are we ever going to get in the field with those conditions?’ But we had a nice melt and (the snow) came off really nicely and fairly quickly, but it’s been a real mixed bag.”

He tells Brownfield parts of northern Minnesota and western North Dakota have been dry.

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