FARMERS ARE PREPARING FOR SPRING PLANTING
These days farmers are preparing for spring planting, mainly getting equipment ready. For area agronomist Leah Ten Napel, it’s a quiet time waiting for planting conditions to come forth.
Soil conditions will improve soon enough.
Some producers will also have to deal with flood issues left over from last year.
These producers will have to watch their flooded acres carefully.
It was an extremely dry winter, but a couple of late winter snowstorms improved topsoil moisture.
For Ten Napel, this is quiet time, for producers, a busy time of preparation.
There is concern that last year’s floods washed out some seed stock. Ten Napel isn’t sure if that’s a problem here.
