Weather impacting planting progress, herbicide applications

Weather impacting planting progress, herbicide applications

An agronomist says the varying rain amounts have some farmers planting and others waiting.  Aricka Wech with Pioneer is in southwestern Wisconsin, and says some of her farmers are planting and others are waiting for good soil conditions. “Some parts of my area in southwestern Wisconsin have received nearly five inches of rain total with some pretty intense pounding rains that have prevented folks fieldwork up until the last couple of days, while others have received less than an inch.”

Wech tells Brownfield it may take a while for soil conditions to improve for some fields.

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