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Corn planting moves ahead quickly in last week

Ag/Outdoor

April 28th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — Iowa farmers were able to get a lot done with dry weather last week. The U-S-D-A report shows corn planting went from two percent to 39 percent planted in the last week as farmers used five days of good weather to get into the fields. The report says it was mid-June before Iowa farmers had five days suitable for fieldwork in the soggy 2019 planting season. The soybean planting also got underway — with nine percent of the beans now in the ground. That’s ten days ahead of last year and one week ahead of the five-year average.