A nearly unprecedented pace of planting spring crops has occurred in recents weeks in Kossuth County as ideal weather greeted farmers. According to Monday’s report from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), warm, dry weather presented Iowa farmers with a statewide average of 6.1 days suitable for field work, and that advanced planting well ahead of normal.
Iowa farmers planted 39 percent of the expected corn crop during the week ending Sunday, May 3. Although great progress was made, in 2015 Iowa farmers were able to plant 54 percent of their corn crop during the same week. This is the first time since 2010 that at least three-quarters of the corn crop has been in the ground by May 3 – the NASS report said 78 percent of the state’s corn crop was planted.
Read the complete story in the May 7 Kossuth County Advance.