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• 5/21 - Nicollet, Minn.:  I wish the markets would just drop down to where the market needs to go to support a two million bushel crop carryover. I think $3.00 corn would do the trick. $2.00 for the 2014 crop. We all know this crop is made now.

• 5/21 - Buffalo County, Wis.: We had 3 inches Sunday night and another .35 Monday night and into Tuesday morning. We are very wet here only maybe 50% corn and 0% beans. Some people didn't even start yet and now there is standing water all over, not good.

• 5/21 - Macoupin County, Ill.:  We are all planted, but the neighbors to the east are only 25% done. They just had really wet ground. Going to be another interesting year.

• 5/21 - Sanilac County, Mich.:  Finish corn 5/20. We had six tenths last night. The hills need it, but low grown doesn't.

• 5/21 - Lyon County, Minn.:  Lots of corn in the ground and beans too. We have 1 day left of planting and will have 3500 Acres of corn and beans in the ground.

• 5/21 - Hendricks County, west-central Indiana: Finished planting last night. Had a storm come thru early this morning. Only got about a 1/4 in. of rain. Corn emergence looks excellent. Some beans starting to emerge. My guess is corn in our area is pretty much planted. Soybeans are about 70% complete. Please continue to pray for those affected by the recent tornados.

• 5/21 - O’Brien County, Iowa: All corn is planted. It took 3 weeks to get it done -- April 30 thru May 6 & 13. All is up. First corn had 5" snow on it, but it looks good. Beans are all in we'll see what the rest of the summer brings.

• 5/21 - Northeast North Dakota: Since Friday night, our area has received from 3 to 8 inches of rain. Some of smaller rivers are back to spring flood stages as like the snow melt. The fields are totally saturated and lots of standing water. Most people here had just got started seeding and planting or were applying fertilizer because of very wet conditions before this rain. My best guess is it’s going to take at least a week to 10 days before any major field work starts again. We’re getting terribly late here and any more rain could get to point that crops may not get seeded here this spring. June 5 and 10 are deadlines for all crops in our area and if seeding much past June 10 quite risk on the crops getting froze in the fall.

• 5/21 - Sibley County, Minn.: 100% done on corn and 15% done on beans, very little emerged - less than 5%.

• 5/21 - Story County, Iowa: Corn planted Apr. 29-30 is up & looks good. 11 in. of snow on May 2. Couldn't go again 'til May 13-18. Conditions were strange with many wet, soft spots. Like driving on a waterbed. 3" of rain on the 19& 20 will keep us from finishing this week.

• 5/21 - Crockett County, Tenn.:  I finished last night. 5/20/13 I know of 1 farmer 66% done as of 5/20. Getting heavy rain today.

• 5/21 - Thomas County, Kan.:  Before you complain about too much rain, check out this photo from Thomas County, Kan. Hope history is not repeating itself.
  

  -- Thomas County, Kan. (Have any photos of the crops on your farm? E-mail (CropComments@agweb.com) them to AgWeb and have them posted on Crop Comments! Be sure to include a caption.)

• 5/21 - Rice, Minn.:  By what I am reading on this page and what I see from the USDA progress data something doesn't seem right.

• 5/21 - Fillmore County, Neb.:  Farmers that got after it are done with corn here and many beans are in. Had 1.25 Sat and Sun. Time to cut alfalfa but I can wait for the rain. Have enough grass to turn cows on pasture. Have had nice rains this spring but they need to keep coming because there is not much subsoil.

• 5/21 - Union County, Ohio: 792 acres of corn planted and 852 acres of beans planted. Just finished tonight and glad to be done. All the corn is up and looking strong. Some of the first beans we planted are coming up also. I would like to see about half inch of rain now. Hang in there to all the guys trying to get things planted in the mud. I have been there before and I know it is not fun.

• 5/21 - Montgomery County, Ill.: 100% corn planted by May 18th and now one inch plus of rain on May 20th. Warm days are helping germination off the a great start. Praying for tornado victims.

• 5/21 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Finally done with corn. We got an inch ten last night and a whole lotta hail from crushed ice to chicken eggs. Would guess corn here is 80% done we got 1250 acres of beans to put in along with 460 acres of seed corn. Lots of unhappy people because of weather. West of us three miles it was baseball sized hail, and lots of wind. Let’s see how far down the trade wants to drive the markets based on all this late planting. This one is a long way from being made.
  

• 5/21 - Kossuth County, Iowa: Been raining excessively since last Thursday night and since this is prairie pothole country 20% of the corn that got planted will have to be replanted again later or converted to soybeans. The guys spent all winter worrying about drought and now no more then get planted and are drowning out!
  

• 5/21 - Juneau County, Wis.: 350 acres of corn planted with 350 to go, no beans planted yet, some farmers are planting some beans because to wet to plant their corn, when we can get a day of sunshine to dry the fields enough t plant we get another 1" or more of rain

• 5/21 - Morrison County, Minn.: Done with corn & beans as of 5/17/13. 2" of rain since.
  

• 5/21 - Iroquois County, Ill.: Corn planting is pretty well finished north of US 24 in east central Illinois. We finished corn on the 13th and beans on the 16th. We got a jump on corn planting with a good share of our corn planted in fall strip tilled bean stubble. It has never worked better and early too.

• 5/21 - Johnson County, Iowa: Done with corn and have third of beans in.

• 5/21 - Carroll County, Iowa: Corn 80% planted. 5% in poor soil conditions, wet & muddy. 10% marginal soil conditions. 85% good to excellent soil conditions. Soybeans 10% planted.

• 5/21 - Grand Forks, N.D.:  It was too wet to seed before all this. Over three inches now. Maybe 50% of the corn in.
  

  -- Grand Forks, N.D. (Have any photos of the crops on your farm? E-mail (CropComments@agweb.com) them to AgWeb and have them posted on Crop Comments! Be sure to include a caption.)

• 5/21 - Story County, Iowa: Corn about 65% done, beans less than 10%. Area received more rainfall Sunday night, over 2.5 inches in some spots.

• 5/21 - Lucas County, Iowa:  Heavy weekly rains equal very little corn or beans planted anywhere in this area. If 70% of the countries corn has been planted, then 30% most likely will wait till June or never get planted at all! Guess we'll see in Nov as to how accurate the predictions are.

• 5/21 - Ouachita Parish, La.: 100% planted here.

• 5/21 - Mower County, Minn.: Severe storms May 19 -- 6 to 9 inches of rain in 4 hours. Lots of top soil erosion a lot of corn fields either washed out or under up to a foot of erosion. I have never seen so much erosion in 45 years of farming.

• 5/21 - Cayuga County, N.Y.: Corn in our area about 2/3 planted. Some of it is up. Hay crop looks good. Most of it will be chopped by the end of the week.

• 5/21 - Wright County, Minn.: We have 100% corn planted on 1175 acres & 95% soybeans planted on 2400 acres. Corn planting in our area is 95% done; 25% soybeans planted.

• 5/21 - Douglas County, S.D.: Corn 100% complete, soybeans 50-75% complete. Hrw looks BAD! Very dry here but have just received about 1.2 inches of MUCH NEEDED moisture.
  

• 5/21 - Walsh county, northeast North Dakota: Have 400 ac. seeded, 5300 to go, My gage showed 1.5 inches over the weekend, only a few miles away we heard reports of 4-5 inches. Huge (millions?) acres of North Dakota are not seeded yet. Not looking so good on the northern prairies.
  

• 5/21 - Seneca, Kan.: 2300 acres of corn in the ground and all emerged. 50 acres of early corn planted April 5. Started bean planting on Saturday before mother’s day and got 1500 acres of beans in the ground with about 350 left to go after the rain we had this weekend.
  

  -- Seneca, Kan. (Have any photos of the crops on your farm? E-mail (CropComments@agweb.com) them to AgWeb and have them posted on Crop Comments! Be sure to include a caption.)

  
  

• East Central Iowa: We had 3 rounds of strong to severe storms yesterday. Some got rained out, while others only got a few drops.
  
  
  

• 5/20 - Northeast Nebraska: I'd say maybe 2/3 corn planted. Had big storms Thursday. Got 2 inches in 15 minutes...cleaned all the ditches out that haven't been there for 2 years. Going to have to replant a lot of no-till acres; cleaned the rows out where the planter went. A few just started on beans. Looks wet all week. It is getting late now...will be no early corn this fall. A lot of cattle feeders and ethanol plants are wondering how they're going to have corn in September, early October. Very little corn in bins as we didn’t raise any in this area last year.

• 5/20 - Palo Alto County, Iowa: Got four days in of planting in the mud before we got rained out Thursday night. Creeks are out of their banks and water standing everywhere. Heavy thunderstorms forecast for tonight and tomorrow. Gonna be awhile before we get back in. This is getting ridiculous.

• 5/20 - Thomas County, Kan.: We have already cut our wheat 3,000+ acres at 1.05-4.5 bu. per acre. All our irrigated corn is in and 80% of our dryland corn, and it went in excellent. We will start milo in 2-3 days. Let's all pray for rain. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

• 5/20 - Rice County, Minn.: We have had four days to plant. Weather appears set to lock us out of the fields into the end of May or more. Record huge crop on the way, in case you didn't know.