(Radio Iowa) – The weather was dry and Iowa farmers were able to get a lot of seed into the ground this past week. The U-S-D-A crop report says there were six-and-a-half days suitable for fieldwork last week, the longest stretch so far this spring. Corn planting moved from 42 to 72 percent complete and is now even with last year, and ahead of the five-year average by nine percent.
Soybean planting also pulled even with last year, at 60 percent planted. That’s now twelve percent above the five year average. The report shows 19 percent of the corn has already emerged, and seven percent of the beans have popped out of the ground.
