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Here's a sampling of what some folks are saying: 

• 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.)

  
  

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• 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.

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• 5/17 - Southeast Minnesota: 30% done with corn and all of that went into ground so wet I never would have thought I would be working/planting it. 3" of rain yesterday, chance of rain every day through Wednesday. Looking like it will be a prevented planting claim for crop insurance unless Memorial Day weekend is beautiful. I would guess 40% of the corn is in here and 0% of the beans.

 

• 5/17 - Freeborn County, Minn.: Rained out on 5/16 at 11 p.m. and with only 43% in the ground, will be another 7-10 days before we go again. This is going to be tough year to get corn seed planted and do it right. Some are already changing plans, and I may have to think hard also. I remember the '80s as a kid and don't want to relive it. Everyone that is having trouble with the weather, just use good judgement and be safe.

 

• 5/17 - Southwest Minnesota: I'm guessing 80% the corn is planted here (mostly this week). A few guys planting some soybeans but not many. Hay and pastures very slow if not dead. Two weeks ago we had 8 inches of snow, tonight tornados. If we were a month early for crops last year and a month late this year, doesn't that mean old crop bushels need to last 14 months?

 

• 5/17 - Livingston County, Mich.: Here it is, "Rain in May, barn full of wheat and hay." We won't see either. Does anyone believe USDA forecasts? Read Crop Tour reports from Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Canada...hardly any spring wheat planted! Reagan said, "If someone shows up from the government and says they are 'here to help' run the other way." Can't believe the yield forecast. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/17 - Southern Mille Lacs County, Minn.: We began planting on Monday and finished last night (Thursday). All soybeans and hit it just right as it is raining a nice soft gentle rain today. Good luck to all.

 

• 5/17 - Columbia, Pa.: Most of the corn in area is planted, around 85%. Soybeans are 50% planted.

 

• 5/17 - East central Iowa: Rain has held off, hopefully until tonight or better yet Sunday. 75 percent of the corn is planted. 25 percent of beans (my best guess only). Some guys have finished corn and some guys are finished with everything.

 

• 5/17 - Eastern Nebraska: Corn planting full bore since the 11th some started later. Some guys done and on beans other just getting started this week on corn. Hit 108 in a town in southeast NE on Tuesday the 14th. We have gone from winter to summer with no spring. Would est. 70% of corn in and around 5% of beans, great planting conditions but will need timely rains all summer as moisture in soil profile is short.
  

 

• 5/17 - Western Walsh county, northeast North Dakota: Finally got started seeding today...put in 200 acres of peas. Tomorrow we will get rolling on the wheat. Local coop fertilizer plant had one of the biggest days ever. Soil was working real nice today. Hope the rain forecast is wrong. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

 

• 5/17 - Poweshiek County, Iowa: Finished corn this afternoon. Mudded in a few little spots but most okay. Started on beans this evening. At least 75% done on corn and a few beans planted in this area.

 

• 5/17 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Finished with both corn and beans today,...and started up pivots to water the crop up. We received about 1/3 of normal rain last year, and we are already behind for this year. When the wind blows hard, there is a fair amount of dirt that moves too. I have seen what seems to be an abnormal number of dust devils this year,... Pastures are extremely slow in greening up, with large areas that look like they are dead. A lot of feed resources are being used up while we await being able to turn cows out, with some throwing in the towel and selling down further, or out completely. Another dry year will devastate the cow herds in central and western NE.
  

 

• 5/17 - Stoddard County, Mo.: On our farm, 100% of corn, cotton, and rice has been planted. 35% of our full season beans have been planted. Working last year’s rice ground now to get remainder of full season beans planted by next week.

 

• 5/17 - Central South Dakota: Spring wheat is all looking above average thus far. 100% done with corn with first planting just starting to poke through, and 50% done with beans. Just started raining and rain forecasted for next 5 days. We could sure use a good 3-inch soaker over that time frame. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/17 - Northwest Kansas: Crop adjuster just finished and the whole farm appraised average for the 2013 wheat crop is 0.45 bu. It didn't germinate until mid-March. Wheat that is being left is stressed, it was 96 Tuesday.
  

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• 5/16 - Southwest Kansas: Hot and dry! It's starting to sound like a broken record. It is now official that it is drier here than it was in the thirties. In the last 17 months here, we have received less than 8" of rain. Most of those rains were 0.20" to 0.30" of rain. Thousands of wheat acres are being abandoned out here. What wheat is left is thin and short. I don't know if it will make it if we don't get a rain here quick. Pastures are horrible and many have been chissled to stop them from blowing. We have many insurance farmers though that have planted dryland corn out here. I think something needs to be done about this. Native pastures can't even green up out here and we have guys wanting to plant crop after crop out here that fails. In the thirties they figured out that summerfallow was the one way to raise a crop out here. Now everybody has forgotten that and I believe if it doesn't start raining out here, this next winter is going to look a lot like the thirties again. Why do we never learn from our past? (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/16 - Lucas County. Iowa: Field work started yesterday, the 15th. Intended to start planting this morning, the 16th, but 1 1/2 inches of hard rain came overnight and it's still raining as I write this. We're back to waiting and may be for some time as more rains forecast in 3 and 4 days.

 

• 5/16 - Perquimans County, N.C.: Corn is all planted. Will start to drop nozzle N tomorrow. Finished planting full soybeans today.
  

 

• 5/16 - Eastern Iowa: 2nd shift is made it. I now have a 24 row! 50 percent chance of rain Friday. I would guess 70 percent of corn is in.
  

  -- East central Iowa (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.)

  
  

• 5/16 - Plymouth County, Iowa: Small corn crop still possible.

 

• 5/16 - Ward County, N.D.: Wheat planting started the 15TH of May now shut down one day later. 4" of rain forecast for out area for the next 5 days. It is getting LATE LATE LATE!!! Wheat yields will be greatly reduced with the late planting here. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

  -- Ward County, 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.)

 

• 5/16 - Brown County, Kan.: Planters running everywhere here. Many will get done with corn this week. Not heard of any soybeans being planted.

 

• 5/16 - Pottawattamie County, Iowa: Finished up corn except for an acre of wet spots. Even the bottom swamp is done. Missed out on the 2 plus inch of rain last week.

 

• 5/16 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: After two days of 90+ temps, some of the wheat fields are beginning to show some moisture stress. We have another 90 deg. day forecast for later this week. Isolated showers are in the 10 day forecast but usually don't amount to much. With warmer temps spring crop planting will get going within a week. Pray for rain. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

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• 5/15 - Billings, Mont.: Hot, dry, UGLY -- to sum up our crops. Sugar beets have been mostly replanted and now being irrigated up. Corn is in, some is up. Now hot dry weather has hurt it. On heavy ground dried out and needs water, but no time for it as grain growing so fast. Gotta water it first, don’t know which crop to help first. Hope the Midwest sends some rain our way, we need it in a bad way!

 

• 5/15 - Plymouth, N.C.: All corn has been planted, along with full-season soybeans.

 

• 5/15 - East central Iowa: Full steam ahead…finally. Most fields are in great shape, with the occasional tacky or wet spot. Rain in the forecast from Thursday thru every day next week. The last 2 evenings we had a line of showers just miss us. We know what that means around here, by next week we could be praying for rain. Good luck to all.
  

 

• 5/15 - East central Iowa: Finished planting corn on Sunday the 12th. Real happy with the condition corn went in the ground. Started beans on the 13th in near perfect condition. Hope to finish beans by Friday. Video courtesy of scotthinch’s YouTube channel.
  
  
  

  Sure is getting hot out! Looks like a good day to take a nap! -- East central Iowa (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.)

 

• 5/15 - Ward County, N.D.: First day of wheat planting started today. We normally have all of the spring wheat in by the 15th of May. Nothing is planted all around our area. Forecast shows 5 days of rain. Wheat planting is way behind normal. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/15 - Freeborn County, Minn.: Planted the first 75 acres today. Conditions was far at best.
  

 

• 5/15 - Lafayette County, Wis.: SW Wisconsin estimate that 60 to 75% of corn is planted and could row some last Sat. Beans being planted, estimate 15 to 25 % is done with excellent planting conditions.
  

 

• 5/15 - Jay County, Ind.: Running hard to get corn finished up before rains come through Wednesday night. Many in the area hoping to be done with corn before the rains. Many getting a good start into their soybean acreage as well.

 

• 5/13 - Texas: Texas cotton planting intentions may be affected by the replanting to cotton of freeze-damaged wheat acreage, but a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert doesn’t expect the change to be significant on dryland wheat acres. "Most of the shift will occur on irrigated wheat fields lost to late spring freezes in the Rolling Plains and Northern High Plains," said Dr. Gaylon Morgan, AgriLife Extension state cotton specialist, College Station. "The optimum planting window for cotton has passed in South Texas and the Blacklands." However, cotton planting has just begun in the Rolling Plains, South Plains and Panhandle regions, but there are other factors — not the least of which are precipitation expectations — that will limit producers replanting to cotton, he said. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

  This cotton seedling is representative of much of the cotton in the Brazos Bottom and Blacklands, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service cotton expert. The on-and-off cool spring has the crop off to a slow start and thrips were causing some major damage. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Dr. Gaylon Morgan) (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.)

  
  

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• 5/14 - Jefferson, Wis.: A little over 1/3 done, 1,000 done 2,000 to go corn. No beans yet. First corn planted is up. With upcoming heat corn in ground should pop. But we keep getting untimely rains which keeps delaying our progress.

 

• 5/14 - Allegan County, Mich.: A lot of acres were put in the last week here. I am done with corn and soybeans. Corn is ahead of last year here, soybeans well, I finished earlier than last year with soybeans, as well.

 

• 5/14 - Sioux County, Iowa: Just got started planting corn. 200 acres and some minor glitches calling it a day.
  

 

• 5/14 - Grundy County, Ill.: Finished planting corn on Sunday the 12th. Real happy with the condition corn went in the ground. Started beans on the 13th in near perfect condition. Hope to finish beans by Friday.

 

• 5/14 - Will County, Ill.: We are about fifty miles south of Chicago. We been in the field seven out of last ten days, probably 90 percent of corn is planted. There have been a couple guys planting soybeans, we will finish corn tomorrow and start beans Wednesday.

 

• 5/14 - Hendricks County, west-central Indiana: Corn is about two-thirds planted as of today. Hope to start on soybeans in the morning. Field conditions not the best but could be a lot worse. What a difference a year makes. We had all the corn and soybeans planted by 4-26 last year. The Lord knows what we need!!!
  

 

• 5/14 - Callaway County, Mo.: Trying to squeeze first cutting alfalfa in between the rain. Supposed to be 90 and windy today. 
  
  

 

• 5/14 - Hamilton County, Ohio: Our soybeans aren't in the ground yet...too wet to plant. Some corn around us was planted early, and last week the fields were flooding.
  

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• 5/13 - Lycoming County, Pa.: Temps in the low 40s. Soil wet. Cannot plant. Snow flurries sun showers . Cannot wait for tomorrow. Frost in the forecast.
  

 

• 5/13 - Henry County, Ohio: All corn in and up. Beans in but not up yet. Some beans in area are up. It got down to 30 degrees with frost, don't know if there’s any frost damage yet, but very possible.

 

• 5/13 - Putnam County, Ohio: My 2 sons, 1 daughter and I farm around 320 acres and we are finished planting. Soybean seed is sprouted and should be up in a week. I also operate a livestock farm, beef cow herd and sheep and we should be close to baling hay by the end of May.

 

• 5/13 - Palo Alto County, Iowa: Finally got going Saturday working ground. Definitely not ideal conditions but if guys can make it across the field without getting stuck they are going. Hope that this crop isn’t going to be a dud since were planting in the mud. This is definitely one of those years people will talk about for generations in this area.
  

 

• 5/13 - East central Iowa: Areas around me received between .5 and 3 inches of rain Thursday evening. Some guys were able to get back to planting Sunday evening, with most going again today (Monday). Almost everyone seems to not be looking at the calendar. Most don’t want to take a chance of mudding it in, only to have the rain start missing them and then having a mess the rest of the year. The hay really took off the last 10 days, taking advantage of the warm spells that were in between the cold periods. Now it will be fun trying to get dairy quality hay made in the next 7-10 days and try and plant at the same time.

 

• 5/13 - Wells County, Ind.: Finished corn Sat the 11th will start beans after switchover from corn to beans on Kinze split row planter.

 

• 5/13 - Fayette County, Pa.: 40 percent corn planted.  50 percent beans planted. Conditions were great until Tuesday, it’s been raining off and on since.  Too windy for any spraying.  First beans are up and praying that it doesn’t frost either of the next two nights. 
  

  -- Fayette County, Pa. (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.)

  
  

 

• 5/13 - Christian Country, Ky.: I have planted 100% of my corn and 80% is up. I might have to replant 20 acres because of rain. The county is about half planted and 90% up. We’ve had over 15 inches of rain this year so far.
  

 

• 5/13 - Corson, S.D.: Half mile visibility yesterday from blowing dirt. Most farmers are canceling their seed corn orders. Spring wheat is coming up but in trouble, only 2" of rain here since July & Aug. of '12'. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/13 - Coles County, Ill.: Still have standing water from the last rain and we got another 1 3/4" and now it is cool and cloudy with more predicted for Thursday. We’ve had 9.5 inches the last half of April and 3.4 so far in May, so it is soggy. So even if we would see some dry weather, it will take a while to dry out enough to do any field work. I have nothing planted and I am not alone. All of the green you see on the satellite maps are weeds, not crops. We reached the saturation point for what the soil can absorb and every little rain now floods.

 

• 5/13 - South central Nebraska: Corn planting is crossing the finish line in this area. Some beans being planted.

 

• 5/13 - Lincoln County, Mo.: Another 1 inch rain. Nothing planted. Wheat yellowing in standing water areas. Have not seen much sunshine in weeks. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/13 - Green County, Wis.: Hoping to plant about 110 acres of corn and 120 acres of soybeans. As of 5/8 I had 70 acres of corn planted. Around 25 projected corn acres might have to be switched to beans, because it's still too wet.
  

  -- Green County, Wis. (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.)

  
  

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• 5/10 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Neighbor tried to put in his test plot today, planted eight rows and quit. The planter was solid mud. We gotta have ten days of drying to get this to work somewhat decently. Some guys have really mudded it in and it doesn’t look pretty.
  

 

• 5/10 - Benson County, N.D.: Text message from my son driving today from Devils Lake to Grand Forks, N.D. (90 miles): 1 planter seeding, 2 stuck, four wheel drives stuck and 3 fertilizer floater spreaders stuck. Ya think we’re are getting nervous?

 

• 5/10 - Southeast Minnesota: Had a few nice days prior to relinquishing any drying progress to rain the past two days. You know the ground is saturated when your basement seeps water that hasn't happened before. Goal was to plant as much corn as possible but glad I have the flexibility to switch to beans. Then again, prevented plant guarantees a decent return with no risk, if it comes to that. It worked for many two years ago in our area. Our optimum planting date for corn is May 10. Zero, nothing, nada done in our area. Our ten day forecast leaves me uneasy. The real question is when is it appropriate to say "Houston we have a problem."

 

• 5/10 - McIntosh County, N.D.: Top soil on the soybean and sunflower ground is dry. The discs on the drill are shined up. Could use rain. Some corn is planted in the area.
  

 

• 5/10 - Winnebago County, Iowa: Planted 4/28-30. Corn’s almost up. 2-3 days out from planting again.

 

• 5/10 - Pepin County, Wis.: Finally!! Got the new planter going Tuesday and Wednesday, got 250 acres done before Thursdays rains came.

 

• 5/10 - Spartinburg, S.C.: 120 acres planted of 150 at Caroland Farms. This has taken three weeks. We should finish today or tomorrow. It has been very wet.
  

 

• 5/10 - McDonough County, Ill.: New word to get use to here. Variability or perhaps more closely volatility. It describes the weather, markets and politics. No planting done my farm, some have planted corn. They must have good tile system or as I suspect once surface dry, tramped her in anyway! 10.5"rain since April 1 and raining again today. Every rain event seems to give us the larger amount. What a difference a year makes. Roast to soup. Lots of flood debris to clean up in river bottoms yet.
  

 

• 5/10 - Bedford County, Pa.: Planters were rolling until over 2" of rain last fell in the last 2 days. Some corn spiking after 10 days in ground, neighbors planting soybeans. Temps still dipping to lower 40's. Forecast for cold front to move thru tomorrow, possible frost in places. Hoping to make first crop alfalfa next week. Small grain (barely) headed out so this moisture timed it perfectly. Warmer temps and less moisture forecasted for end of next week.

 

• 5/10 - Cole County, Mo.: Almost no corn planted and no beans planted. Hay fields are wet, with very little harvested. More rain today (5/09/13).

 

• 5/10 - Lancaster County, Pa.: Full season corn, 66% of acreage, finished 5/7/2013. Some of the best overall soil moisture conditions in my 38 years of planting corn. 33% of acreage in barley and wheat will be double cropped in to additional corn and soybeans. Small grains look healthy, with no signs of disease currently, in spite of cooler and damp conditions. All small grains had one application of fungicide, preparing for second application on wheat. Frost in the forecast for Sunday night. Stay tuned...BE SAFE. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

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• 5/9 - Fayette, Ind.: We have put in only 200 acres of corn and now have to stop, no seed. Purchase seed from DYNAGROW last November and has not arrived yet. They can't even tell me when it will get here. Never buy DYNAGROW again, too big of a risk!
  

 

• 5/9 - Faribault County, Minn.: Virtually no corn planted here, maybe 1 or 2 percent.   Raining right now.  10 day shows sunny and warm temps after a possible frost Sunday morning with a new chance for a thunderstorm next Wed.  If we miss that rain, it shows a wet weekend after this coming one.  Seems like the "clear" long range forecast always changes to a slight chance of showers every time we get close.  Our ground needs several days of drying to get in shape.  We normally start around April 21-22 and hope to finish by May 10, tomorrow is the 10th and have not started yet.  Even in 1993 our worst crop ever, we planted some corn in April and our last field on May 23. 

 

• 5/9 - Tuscola County, Mich.: Sugar beets are nearly all in and corn has been underway since early week. It seems to me that conditions have just now approached ideal as it's been a game of finding the lightest best tiled ground to date.

 

• 5/9 - Chicot County, Ark.: The heavy clay soils are still wet to plant rice. Some farmers are having trouble getting the rice crop in without getting stuck. But as they fiercely try to plant the crop before June 1st, and with rain in the forecast this weekend, many farmers are planting what they can.
  

  -- Chicot County, Ark. (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.)

  
  

 

• 5/9 - Wisconsin: Mother Nature – she is the QUEEN!

 

• 5/9 - Louisville/Alliance, Ohio: Just started planting 5-5-2013. We have 120 acres of 250 acres of corn in, but the rain came. We hope to have our plowed ground done tomorrow. We have to go back and do the no-till ground. No beans in the ground yet, maybe two weeks until we start.

 

• 5/9 - Fayette County, Pa.: Planted 11 acres corn May 3. Very little planting yet.
  

 

• 5/9 - Mercer County, northwest Illinois: This is what our equipment has been doing for the past week. Planted 200 hundred acres May 2nd in less than good conditions. Then came another 2.6 to 4 inches of rain on Friday the 3rd.  Still mud here with another inch forecast for tonight and tomorrow.
  

  -- Mercer County, northwest Illinois (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.)

 

• 5/9 - Snyder County, Pa.: Planting corn and soybean got in 121 acres of soybean and 115 of corn. Great weather here. Rain today (1.6 inches). Everybody hard at planting.

 

• 5/9 - Palo Alto County, Iowa: Wet and getting wetter tonight and tomorrow. Planting in the area is very spotty mostly on sandy soil. Next week looks like it will be dry for a few days but in most of our area it will take until mid-week before it will be fit. It’s gonna be hard not to mud it in with the 20th creeping up on us.

 

• 5/9 - Plymouth County, Iowa: Switched all beans. I feel better all ready. The market is night right right yet, but by the time I apply manure, fertilizer, spray, tillage and plant just not going to kill myself with all-nighters. After 40 years bottom line is I just can't do it anymore. Going to enjoy working cattle today because I have plenty of time now.
  

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• 5/8 - Henry County, Ohio: Calendar farmers have been going full speed with corn and soybean planting. Some have not started still waiting on ground conditions to improve.

 

• 5/8 - Grant County, Ind.: Field cultivated all day and the ground is really wet underneath. The planters are running all around here. If the land could talk back to the farmers it would be saying you are compacting me! Planting corn we are, but not in ideal conditions and it will equal lower yields. Hope USDA UNDERSTANDS that planting corn in wet conditions does not mean bin busting yields!

 

• 5/8 - East central Iowa: Most planters started running Tuesday afternoon. I think just about everybody will hit it hard today. 1/2 to 1 inch on the way for Thursday. Planting on top of the bluffs next the Mississippi River.
  

  -- East central Iowa (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.)

 

• 5/8 - Carroll County, Md.: Planted on 5-6 to 5-8, now raining and cold. Very little corn up here even after in the ground for 3 weeks.

 

• 5/8 - Huntingdon County, Pa.: All finished planting corn and beans. Sure could use some rain. Hope you guys in the Midwest send us some soon. The wheat is growing but it is not a deep green. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

 

• 5/8 - Northwest Saskatchewan: What a difference a week of Sun, Heat and Wind makes. 3 days ago the frogs started croaking, a sure sign! Now the farmers here are Quading around to see which is the best navigational route. I'm sure everyone will be rolling and spinning around here by next week. Busy times are good times, good luck to all.
  

  -- Northwest Saskatchewan (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.)

  
  

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• 5/7 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: Wheat in SW Cheyenne County and N Logan County, Colo., has nonexistent spots and thin spots throughout. Very, very few fields are consistently looking uniformly good. Wheat is at least 3 weeks behind normal. We now have a longer period of hail risk and damage from excessive heat. Looks to be a very interesting summer. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/7 - Woodbury County, Iowa: Very few acres planted in this area. There has only been one day this season, April 30, where conditions were fit but few went to the field because of the cold weather. I planted 12 acres and then had 2" of snow the next day. Corn has not sprouted yet. Too wet to plant today. Thunderstorms predicted for this evening.
  
  
• 5/7 - Poweshiek County, Iowa: We are about 40% planted on corn before this last snow event. First we planted on Sat the 27th is sprouted and should be up in 2 or 3 days if we can keep 75 degrees in the forecast. More rain on Wed and Thurs in the forecast on top of the 12.9 inches we have had since April 8. Now we are wet!

 

• 5/7 - East central Iowa: 2" of rain (no snow, thankfully) last Thursday/Friday. We have been fortunate enough to have had the sun Saturday, Sunday and Monday with rain in the forecast Wednesday night. I think today (Tuesday) it will be balls-to-the-walls fieldwork. I plan on starting the planter back up later this morning and run as hard as I can until the rain moves in. We all know what that could mean...the rain doesn’t materialize, and then 10 days from now we are praying for it to cover up some mistakes the were made. Time will only tell. Once again, we feel luckier than most to hopefully make some progress. By the way, are the traders trying to tell us something by not caring that virtually no corn is in the ground yet as of May 7th?

 

• 5/7 - Wells County, Ind.: Running anhydrous should get done tomorrow, then we’ll start planting corn.
  

 

• 5/7 - Rapides Parish, La.: Finished fertilizing milo 5/1 right ahead of 1 inch rain. Today, I hope to get layby herbicides out on milo. Have 60 acres of bean land left to plow because of wet conditions this spring. Should get started planting soybeans this week. Good luck and be safe.

 

• 5/7 - Kimball County, Neb.: None planted here.

 

• 5/7 - Grant County, Minn.: Floaters and planters started rolling on select fields on 5/2/13. Wheat, beans, corn and sugarbeets all being planted. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

 

• 5/7 - Mower County, Minn.: 15" in snow last Wednesday. It is mostly gone now, water standing all over, and very, very little corn in the ground! Tile vent pipe's flowing water!

 

• 5/7 - Montcalm County, Mich.: Planter is headed to the field on our farm today. We have 900 acres of corn and 450 acres of beans to get in. Right now we have about 300 ready to plant with another 300 - 400 we can start getting on if this weather holds. The rest is still really wet with some standing water still.

 

• 5/7 - Boone County, Ky.: 65 acres of corn planted last Friday and Saturday. There was a 30% chance of rain on Sunday….we got 2.5 inches.
  

 

• 5/7 - Otoe, Neb.: 20% done planting. The forecast is not good for 2 weeks.
  

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• 5/6 - Kossuth County, Iowa: 100% in the bag, unplanted that is, both corn and soybeans. Climates change...

 

• 5/6 - Northern Stearns County, Minn.: Hauled manure this weekend and chiseled it in. I am going to pick rocks this week and start planting corn Thursday and hopefully be done by Sunday. Ground is cold but yesterday's sun helped dry things out. Supposedly to be around 70 degrees all week. Soil moisture is excellent.
  

 

• 5/6 - Montgomery County, Mo.: We've been having cold rain, so no planting. 3.5 inches rain over weekend. drove across state to KC, saw 1 field planted next to I-70, couple more at KC. Can't imagine how they'll get a stand. Heavy snow flattened the wheat. Calling for 60% more rain Thursday. Old saying "when it's tough to get it planted, it'll turned out good." Worked last year. Went in beautiful and turned out horrible. So I guess we got perfect weather after all!! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/6 - DeKalb County, Ind.: 7 acres of corn planted with 16 row planter so far. It is wet, wet, wet. Just a lucky few are planting, those with sandy soils. Need 3 to 5 days of decent drying to dry up some of these fields.

 

• 5/6 - Lac Qui Parle County, Minn.: No corn in the ground yet. Next week weather sounds better. 750 acres fertilizer spread and 500 acres worked.40 degrees this morning again.
  
  
• 5/6 - Franklin, Pa.: Cool here and a little dry. Planters in the fields and running full steam. Looks like small grains are going to be a little short.

 

• 5/6 - Greeley County, Neb.: Virtually no planting in area as of 5/4/2013. 6 inches of beautiful moisture since April 9th. 30 degrees this morning and 26 degrees yesterday morning. Was done with corn planting at this time last year.

 

• 5/6 - Bulgaria: Targovishte wheat is in very good condition. Zaâvaneto is in progress of hybrid sunflower seeds. Rain is not having 25 days, but is very necessary. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

  -- Bulgaria (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.)

  
  

 

• 5/6 - Marion County, Iowa: Had 4-5 inches of snow yesterday (Friday) some corn planted Monday through Wednesday, some guys didn't start others near compete, even some beans planted. Progress maybe 25%, normal would be 90% here. The agronomists and farmers are very nervous here with snow on the ground and rain forecasted for next week.

 

• 5/6 - South central Minnesota: No planting here 5-8’’ of snow.

 

• 5/6 - Polk County, Iowa: Drove from Des Moines to Kansas City this Friday afternoon. 33-34 degrees and snowing all the way. Snow covered all the ground in Iowa, spotty snow cover to KC. Standing water everywhere. Saw only 3-4 fields that had been planted and they were wet, wet, wet. 8 inches of wet snow in Central Iowa since this started and half has melted. Forecast for 1-2 inches of rain to come and very slowly warming temps. We had planted 100 acres (of 600) corn before the rain started. Suspect that as wet and cold as it has been, and will be, it will need replanting. It will be mid-May before we get back in the field - that is if the sun comes out, as forecast, by mid- week.
  

 

• 5/6 - Greene County, Ohio: Anyone in Iowa or Minnesota look at the extended weather forecast? Or do they have frost proof seed out there?

 

• 5/6 - Eaton County, Mich.: Nobody doing anything in the fields yet! We are wet and we are going to get a dry stretch this next week, maybe next week we can get started.

 

• 5/6 - Saunders County, Neb.: This Saunders County field was planted to corn Wednesday (May 1), followed by rain and then snow on Thursday. See this week's story on how cold soil water can affect the imbibitional process in soybean.  (Photo by Mark Schroeder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
  

  -- Saunders County, Neb. (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.)

  
  

 

• 5/6 - Pepin, Wis.: Received 10 inches of snow and I know rain going to start as soon as snow is gone on our irrigated sands up near Eau Claire.

 

• 5/6 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Cool and windy here today. Had about 1" of moisture in the rain/snow event on 1May.The moisture is very welcome, but the temps stink. At least there will be some grass when it finally warms up enough to allow it to grow. No leaves on any trees, and the plum bushes are just starting to show blooms-last year they had already set plums by now. About 50-60% planted on corn. Good luck to all.

 

• 5/6 - Corydon, Iowa: This picture was taken this morning in the yard of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office Corydon, Iowa near the Iowa/Missouri Border in South-central Iowa. 9-12" snowfall totals from last night. Was near 90 degrees on Tuesday. I have a little corn and beans both planted but the worst part is the cow/calf on green grass with little hay left in the drought stricken area.
  

  -- Corydon, Iowa (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.)

 

• 5/6 - Lancaster County, Neb.: It must be the southern part of Lancaster County that is half planted (see comment below) because in the North maybe 5% planted on corn and no beans. Planters 1 or 2 rolled a little on Sat. the 27 and a few more by Monday and Tuesday. Then hit with 1" of rain, then sleet then snow and below 32 temps. Will be a while, next rain predicted for Wed. at 70% chance. It was plenty wet when we started Sunday morning. Fields that haven't had any spraying done are looking pretty ugly.

 

• 5/6 - Hancock County Iowa: 10 inches snow yesterday. 8 1/2 inches rain last three weeks, but we needed it all. Less than 1/2% of corn planted. This to shall pass. Be careful all, let's enjoy harvest.
  

 

• 5/6 - Runnels County, Texas: Our wheat is dry and has some freeze damage, a very poor crop. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

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• 5/3 - Chippewa, Wis.: We were just getting dried out enough to maybe start spreading manure. 81 on Monday and then we get socked by Achilles and are left with 8+ inches of snow and up to 16 inches to the west. Will be a couple of weeks before anything is planted around here. I sure do miss that "global warming" of last year.

 

• 5/3 - Brown County, S.D.: Some tillage but last two nights’ temps were record lows. No planting yet.
  

 

• 5/3 - Buffalo County, Wis.: Corn planters still in the shed yet. Nobody planted corn here yet and some small grain was put in last Sunday. We just had 8 plus inches of snow Thursday and going to rain for the next 2 days. Not good things are going to be late here.

 

• 5/3 - Lancaster County, Neb.: Planters started rolling in our area on April 25th and with the large planters and 7 days of warm weather most farmers have at least half of their corn in. Soybean planting also started but less than 10% is planted. Cold wet weather is back and we probably won't get back in the fields before May 6th.

 

• 5/3 - Stanton County, Neb.: A few young guys planted on April 29 and 30. One guy was planting at 2 A.M., I suppose to beat the snow and the freezing temperatures. We are to be in the mid-twenties tomorrow morning. Most are waiting Mother Nature out a bit longer (a week or two) before panic mode sets in.
  
  
• 5/3 - Moultrie County, Ill.: Big thunderstorm this P.M. dumped 1.5" in 10 min. We were within 48 hours of being dry enough to plant our first field of corn. Forecast for another 2" by Sunday pm!

 

• 5/3 - Freeborn County, Minn.: We’ve had 10+inches of snow. We can't haul manure let alone start to plant corn yet. Some have started: but on light ground

 

• 5/3 - Chicot County, Ark.: Wheat looks good, and the corn looks good, but a little thin in some places. Soybeans look great. We started planting last day in March/first week in April. I have finished planting I got an inch of rain May the first. When I went to get my first bean seeds, my seed dealer told me he was going to dig a hole and put me in it with no cloth on to see how I liked it (referring to the to the bean seeds). But as of today, I have beans about six inches tall. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

 

• 5/3 - Kearney County, Neb.: Lot of corn planted around here last week. We're 85% done but questioning my sanity for doing so with the cold temps and a slow warm-up in the forecast. Got a quarter inch of rain so I have taken the last couple of days off the tractor.

 

• 5/3 - DeKalb, Mo.: Yard is white. T-shirts yesterday. Lot of planters rolling since last Saturday. Some corn was planted early April, can't see any of it up yet but heard that crop adjusters are telling them to wait and see. Any piece of ground that can handle a 4wd and 16-row planter is being planted. Some ground that has never seen daylight is now being broken. 1 good crop and corn is back to $2. God forbid if something happens to the ethanol market.

 

• 5/3 - Manitowoc, Wis.: We have a huge amount of winterkill on our alfalfa and SRW in EC WI. Our extension agent says it is all across WI into MN. Guys are scrambling to try to find emergency forage seed here in dairy country.
  

 

• 5/3 - Ottawa County, Okla.: Only had 5 corn planting days since March 15th. Got 1/2 my planned acres in and insurance closed April 30. Remaining corn acres will switch to milo. Most here got zero corn planted. However, my winter canola seems to like this weather!
  

  -- Ottawa County, Okla. (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.)

 

• 5/3 - Saunders County, Neb.: Had 3-4" snow Wednesday night plus 1" rain during the afternoon. Just planted part of Monday and Tuesday. Not too many farmers going yet because of the cold temps. 30 degrees this morning.

 

• 5/3 - Sibley County, Minn.: Several inches of snow last night. Corn planting continues to be delayed, at least two weeks from any seeds going in the ground, expect yields to be reduced 10% to 15% and that is if we get decent weather the rest of the year.
  

 

• 5/3 - Mitchell County, Iowa: We have not been to the field as of May 2 and we are receiving snow today. We have currently 8-10 inches on the ground and still snowing schools closed for the day and it is supposed to be a high of 39 degrees tomorrow with rain. I am considering on chaining my 103 day corn in for some 99 day corn if I get my hands on some. We probably won't be the field next week this time unless there is a drastic change in the weather.

 

• 5/3 - Hancock County, Iowa: No planting in northern Iowa for a while! Picture taken May 2nd!
  

  -- Hancock County, Iowa (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.)

 

• 5/3 - Seward County, Neb.: The field in the picture is planted.  Soil Temp at 4", 40 degrees this morning.  This area is 10% planted.  Five more days of cold wet weather before it even dries out here.  No measurable snow in May here since 1967.  We had about 2" snow yesterday and last night.  We completed corn planting on 4/26 last year.  Our farm has not planted an acre yet.  This weather will not be good to planted seeds as temps are going to remain well below average. 
  

  -- Seward County, Neb. (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.)

  
  

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• 5/2 - Wabasha County, Minn.: Over 12'' of snow overnight. No small grains planted or anything yet. A lot of winterkill in 2nd year or older alfalfa stands, plowing mine all up. Will be 10-14 days till we can start anything. Good luck to all this year.

 

• 5/2 - Kent County, Ontario: This time last year corn planting 100% complete. This year 0%. If last year was global warming, I want more.
  

 

• 5/2 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Rain, hail, sleet and thunder snow, the only thing we haven’t gotten outa this one is a twister. Couple guys planted a little, but most are still trying to put on fertilizer. Tomorrow night’s lows in the lower twenties. No planting here until possibly late next week if we get good weather.

 

• 5/2 - Southwest Nebraska: Wheat is poor. Insurance adjuster put my uncle's at 3 bu./ac. and a neighbor had his at 4 bu./ac. It will be destroyed ASAP. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/2 - East central Iowa: I finally started planting corn, even though I shouldn’t be. They are talking about a low of 38 degrees…with cold rain. Video courtesy of scotthinch’s YouTube channel.
  
  

 

• 5/2 - Graves County, Ky.: 875 acres of corn in the ground. This time last year we were done. A lot of farmers are thinking this will be a repeat of 09, will see. As of now, I would cut my corn yield by 15 to 20%.

 

• 5/2 - Southeast Minnesota: Maybe the USDA can correct some optimum planting dates in that magic hat.
  

  -- Southeast Minnesota (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.)

 

• 5/2 - Sac County, Iowa: Planted corn April 28/29 but stopped on the 30th because of weather forecast. On May 1 we had 0.8 inches of rain and 3 inches of snow, with a forecast of 6 inches and temperature of 32 degrees. Estimate 15 % of corn in the ground.
  

 

• 5/2 - Kossuth County, Iowa: Neighbor planted corn in this field yesterday (4-30-2013), might be a while before you can row it!
  

  -- Kossuth County, Iowa (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.)

 

• 5/2 - Winona County, Minn.: 4-8 inches of snow tonight through tomorrow. Storm to affect us for several days. .001% with seeds in the ground here. Top surface was just about getting where we could have done something. All mud under the surface. Lots of Terra Gators buried around here along with manure spreaders buried to the axles. 1 inch of rain last night. It’s gonna be a while before we get going here. At least 10 days min. Be safe.
  

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• 5/1 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: We have 3 in. snow in the ground, more to come. We have 28 degrees with light snow. We'll take the moisture. Isn't global warming wonderful?

 

• 5/1 - O’Brien County, Iowa: Over 70 degrees last couple days. A lot of corn went in but, we’re not done. Now snowing and high of 40. It could be a week before we are back in the field. Gotta love spring!
  

 

• 5/1 - Canton, Mo.: From Farm Journal Media’s Pam Fretwell: I found some emerged corn in Canton, Mo. It was planted about 2 weeks ago. It is not looking good, but you can row it in some places.
  

  -- Canton, Mo. (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.)

 

• 5/1 - Lincoln County, Wash.: Only 2.2 inches of moisture the first 4 months of the year! 30+ mile an hour winds the last several days and 16 degrees this morning. The winter wheat has been slowly deteriorating. Temperatures expected in the 80's and no precipitation for the next couple of weeks. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/1 - Nobles County, Minn.: May 1st in southwest Minnesota and it still look like February. And we're going to plant more corn acres according to USDA. I don't think so! There will be NO corn planted here until mid-May. And the little bit of corn that is in the ground will get a tough start. Enjoy your Spring?
  

  -- Nobles County, Minn. (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.)

  
  

 

• 5/1 - Meeker County, Minn.: Nothing moving and snowing today.

 

• 5/1 - Pottawattamie County, Iowa: Started planting yesterday to check out our new planter. The dealer said to hold off because of cold rain. Planters have been rolling since Saturday P.M.

 

• 5/1 - Warren County, Ky.: Hay has dramatically been cut in terms of production. Fescue and or chardgrass has already started to head out at about ten inches tall. This will not yield much tonnage per acre. We need some warm weather real quick.
  

 

• 5/1 - Pennsylvania: 0 planted. The soil is too cold.

 

• 5/1 - Oliver County, N.D.: Air seeders are starting to roll in the area. We started this afternoon with spring wheat. Going on sunflower ground and was working nicely. Stubble ground is still pretty wet. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 5/1 - Hancock County, Iowa: Today was the 1st day we might have been able to plant. However, crop scouts & Monsanto discouraged it because of the rain and cold for the next 5 days. We've had 9+ inches of rain over the past month and not a pond sitting in the fields. That is how dry we were. 75 degrees today and snow predicted for the week, only in Iowa!
  

 

• 5/1 - Cuming County, Neb.: Weather coming in, 2 to 4 inches of snow for May 1! Looks like the USDA should think about the record crop of snow peas this year.

 

• 5/1 - Balcarres, Saskatchewan Canada: We still have a lot of the winter snow left on the fields here. some areas got about 10 inches of snow again today. We usually start the 1st week of May. With all the snow and water on the field now could be the 1st week of June if at all. In 43 years of farming never seen the winter snow left on fields on the 1st of May. This will be our 4th year of poor seeding conditions. Good Luck to all!! May God send his Blessings

 

• 5/1 - Franklin, Pa.: Some corn planted, small grains are short. The hay is growing. Last year was two weeks earlier than average, this year is a week behind average.
  

 

• 5/1 - Livingston County, Mo.: As of April 30, no corn has been planted. 80 today some nh3 go on. May 1 calling for 80 dropping to 36 overnight.

 

• 5/1 - Saline County, Kan.: 10% planted corn. We started April 3. It is just now coming up.

 

• 5/1 - East central Iowa: There are three types of farmers over here: 1. Those who are planting full bore. 2. Those were waiting until after this cold and wet weather goes through. 3. Those of us who don't know what group to join.
  

 

• 5/1 - Northern Indiana: In northern Indiana, where temperatures are in the 80s this week, area farmers may get a small window to plant, according to an I-80 Planting Tour update from AgDay’s Tyne Morgan. Jason Wykoff farms around New Ca

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  • 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.
    
     
  • 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.
     

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  • 5/17 - Southeast Minnesota: 30% done with corn and all of that went into ground so wet I never would have thought I would be working/planting it. 3" of rain yesterday, chance of rain every day through Wednesday. Looking like it will be a prevented planting claim for crop insurance unless Memorial Day weekend is beautiful. I would guess 40% of the corn is in here and 0% of the beans.
    
     
  • 5/17 - Freeborn County, Minn.: Rained out on 5/16 at 11 p.m. and with only 43% in the ground, will be another 7-10 days before we go again. This is going to be tough year to get corn seed planted and do it right. Some are already changing plans, and I may have to think hard also. I remember the '80s as a kid and don't want to relive it. Everyone that is having trouble with the weather, just use good judgement and be safe.
    
     
  • 5/17 - Southwest Minnesota: I'm guessing 80% the corn is planted here (mostly this week). A few guys planting some soybeans but not many. Hay and pastures very slow if not dead. Two weeks ago we had 8 inches of snow, tonight tornados. If we were a month early for crops last year and a month late this year, doesn't that mean old crop bushels need to last 14 months?
    
     
  • 5/17 - Livingston County, Mich.: Here it is, "Rain in May, barn full of wheat and hay." We won't see either. Does anyone believe USDA forecasts? Read Crop Tour reports from Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Canada...hardly any spring wheat planted! Reagan said, "If someone shows up from the government and says they are 'here to help' run the other way." Can't believe the yield forecast.
    
     
  • 5/17 - Southern Mille Lacs County, Minn.: We began planting on Monday and finished last night (Thursday). All soybeans and hit it just right as it is raining a nice soft gentle rain today. Good luck to all.
    
     
    • 5/17 - Columbia, Pa.: Most of the corn in area is planted, around 85%. Soybeans are 50% planted.
    • 5/17 - East central Iowa: Rain has held off, hopefully until tonight or better yet Sunday. 75 percent of the corn is planted. 25 percent of beans (my best guess only). Some guys have finished corn and some guys are finished with everything.

   

  • 5/17 - Eastern Nebraska: Corn planting full bore since the 11th some started later. Some guys done and on beans other just getting started this week on corn. Hit 108 in a town in southeast NE on Tuesday the 14th. We have gone from winter to summer with no spring. Would est. 70% of corn in and around 5% of beans, great planting conditions but will need timely rains all summer as moisture in soil profile is short.
    

   

  • 5/17 - Western Walsh county, northeast North Dakota: Finally got started seeding today...put in 200 acres of peas. Tomorrow we will get rolling on the wheat. Local coop fertilizer plant had one of the biggest days ever. Soil was working real nice today. Hope the rain forecast is wrong. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

   

  • 5/17 - Poweshiek County, Iowa: Finished corn this afternoon. Mudded in a few little spots but most okay. Started on beans this evening. At least 75% done on corn and a few beans planted in this area.

   

  • 5/17 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Finished with both corn and beans today,...and started up pivots to water the crop up. We received about 1/3 of normal rain last year, and we are already behind for this year. When the wind blows hard, there is a fair amount of dirt that moves too. I have seen what seems to be an abnormal number of dust devils this year,... Pastures are extremely slow in greening up, with large areas that look like they are dead. A lot of feed resources are being used up while we await being able to turn cows out, with some throwing in the towel and selling down further, or out completely. Another dry year will devastate the cow herds in central and western NE.
    

   

  • 5/17 - Stoddard County, Mo.: On our farm, 100% of corn, cotton, and rice has been planted. 35% of our full season beans have been planted. Working last year’s rice ground now to get remainder of full season beans planted by next week.

   

  • 5/17 - Central South Dakota: Spring wheat is all looking above average thus far. 100% done with corn with first planting just starting to poke through, and 50% done with beans. Just started raining and rain forecasted for next 5 days. We could sure use a good 3-inch soaker over that time frame. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

   

  • 5/17 - Northwest Kansas: Crop adjuster just finished and the whole farm appraised average for the 2013 wheat crop is 0.45 bu. It didn't germinate until mid-March. Wheat that is being left is stressed, it was 96 Tuesday.
    

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  • 5/16 - Southwest Kansas: Hot and dry! It's starting to sound like a broken record. It is now official that it is drier here than it was in the thirties. In the last 17 months here, we have received less than 8" of rain. Most of those rains were 0.20" to 0.30" of rain. Thousands of wheat acres are being abandoned out here. What wheat is left is thin and short. I don't know if it will make it if we don't get a rain here quick. Pastures are horrible and many have been chissled to stop them from blowing. We have many insurance farmers though that have planted dryland corn out here. I think something needs to be done about this. Native pastures can't even green up out here and we have guys wanting to plant crop after crop out here that fails. In the thirties they figured out that summerfallow was the one way to raise a crop out here. Now everybody has forgotten that and I believe if it doesn't start raining out here, this next winter is going to look a lot like the thirties again. Why do we never learn from our past? (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  • 5/16 - Lucas County. Iowa: Field work started yesterday, the 15th. Intended to start planting this morning, the 16th, but 1 1/2 inches of hard rain came overnight and it's still raining as I write this. We're back to waiting and may be for some time as more rains forecast in 3 and 4 days.

   

  • 5/16 - Perquimans County, N.C.: Corn is all planted. Will start to drop nozzle N tomorrow. Finished planting full soybeans today.
    

   

  • 5/16 - Eastern Iowa: 2nd shift is made it. I now have a 24 row! 50 percent chance of rain Friday. I would guess 70 percent of corn is in.
    

    -- East central Iowa (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.)

    
    

   

  • 5/16 - Plymouth County, Iowa: Small corn crop still possible.

   

  • 5/16 - Ward County, N.D.: Wheat planting started the 15TH of May now shut down one day later. 4" of rain forecast for out area for the next 5 days. It is getting LATE LATE LATE!!! Wheat yields will be greatly reduced with the late planting here. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

    -- Ward County, 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.)

   

  • 5/16 - Brown County, Kan.: Planters running everywhere here. Many will get done with corn this week. Not heard of any soybeans being planted.

   

  • 5/16 - Pottawattamie County, Iowa: Finished up corn except for an acre of wet spots. Even the bottom swamp is done. Missed out on the 2 plus inch of rain last week.

   

  • 5/16 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: After two days of 90+ temps, some of the wheat fields are beginning to show some moisture stress. We have another 90 deg. day forecast for later this week. Isolated showers are in the 10 day forecast but usually don't amount to much. With warmer temps spring crop planting will get going within a week. Pray for rain. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

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  • 5/15 - Billings, Mont.: Hot, dry, UGLY -- to sum up our crops. Sugar beets have been mostly replanted and now being irrigated up. Corn is in, some is up. Now hot dry weather has hurt it. On heavy ground dried out and needs water, but no time for it as grain growing so fast. Gotta water it first, don’t know which crop to help first. Hope the Midwest sends some rain our way, we need it in a bad way!

   

  • 5/15 - Plymouth, N.C.: All corn has been planted, along with full-season soybeans.

   

  • 5/15 - East central Iowa: Full steam ahead…finally. Most fields are in great shape, with the occasional tacky or wet spot. Rain in the forecast from Thursday thru every day next week. The last 2 evenings we had a line of showers just miss us. We know what that means around here, by next week we could be praying for rain. Good luck to all.
    

   

  • 5/15 - East central Iowa: Finished planting corn on Sunday the 12th. Real happy with the condition corn went in the ground. Started beans on the 13th in near perfect condition. Hope to finish beans by Friday. Video courtesy of scotthinch’s YouTube channel.
    
    
    

    Sure is getting hot out! Looks like a good day to take a nap! -- East central Iowa (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.)

   

  • 5/15 - Ward County, N.D.: First day of wheat planting started today. We normally have all of the spring wheat in by the 15th of May. Nothing is planted all around our area. Forecast shows 5 days of rain. Wheat planting is way behind normal. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

   

  • 5/15 - Freeborn County, Minn.: Planted the first 75 acres today. Conditions was far at best.
    

   

  • 5/15 - Lafayette County, Wis.: SW Wisconsin estimate that 60 to 75% of corn is planted and could row some last Sat. Beans being planted, estimate 15 to 25 % is done with excellent planting conditions.
    

   

  • 5/15 - Jay County, Ind.: Running hard to get corn finished up before rains come through Wednesday night. Many in the area hoping to be done with corn before the rains. Many getting a good start into their soybean acreage as well.

   

  • 5/13 - Texas: Texas cotton planting intentions may be affected by the replanting to cotton of freeze-damaged wheat acreage, but a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert doesn’t expect the change to be significant on dryland wheat acres. "Most of the shift will occur on irrigated wheat fields lost to late spring freezes in the Rolling Plains and Northern High Plains," said Dr. Gaylon Morgan, AgriLife Extension state cotton specialist, College Station. "The optimum planting window for cotton has passed in South Texas and the Blacklands." However, cotton planting has just begun in the Rolling Plains, South Plains and Panhandle regions, but there are other factors — not the least of which are precipitation expectations — that will limit producers replanting to cotton, he said. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

    This cotton seedling is representative of much of the cotton in the Brazos Bottom and Blacklands, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service cotton expert. The on-and-off cool spring has the crop off to a slow start and thrips were causing some major damage. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Dr. Gaylon Morgan) (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.)

    
    

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  • 5/14 - Jefferson, Wis.: A little over 1/3 done, 1,000 done 2,000 to go corn. No beans yet. First corn planted is up. With upcoming heat corn in ground should pop. But we keep getting untimely rains which keeps delaying our progress.

   

  • 5/14 - Allegan County, Mich.: A lot of acres were put in the last week here. I am done with corn and soybeans. Corn is ahead of last year here, soybeans well, I finished earlier than last year with soybeans, as well.

   

  • 5/14 - Sioux County, Iowa: Just got started planting corn. 200 acres and some minor glitches calling it a day.
    

   

  • 5/14 - Grundy County, Ill.: Finished planting corn on Sunday the 12th. Real happy with the condition corn went in the ground. Started beans on the 13th in near perfect condition. Hope to finish beans by Friday.

   

  • 5/14 - Will County, Ill.: We are about fifty miles south of Chicago. We been in the field seven out of last ten days, probably 90 percent of corn is planted. There have been a couple guys planting soybeans, we will finish corn tomorrow and start beans Wednesday.

   

  • 5/14 - Hendricks County, west-central Indiana: Corn is about two-thirds planted as of today. Hope to start on soybeans in the morning. Field conditions not the best but could be a lot worse. What a difference a year makes. We had all the corn and soybeans planted by 4-26 last year. The Lord knows what we need!!!
    

   

  • 5/14 - Callaway County, Mo.: Trying to squeeze first cutting alfalfa in between the rain. Supposed to be 90 and windy today. 
    
    

   

  • 5/14 - Hamilton County, Ohio: Our soybeans aren't in the ground yet...too wet to plant. Some corn around us was planted early, and last week the fields were flooding.
    

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  • 5/13 - Lycoming County, Pa.: Temps in the low 40s. Soil wet. Cannot plant. Snow flurries sun showers . Cannot wait for tomorrow. Frost in the forecast.
    

   

  • 5/13 - Henry County, Ohio: All corn in and up. Beans in but not up yet. Some beans in area are up. It got down to 30 degrees with frost, don't know if there’s any frost damage yet, but very possible.

   

  • 5/13 - Putnam County, Ohio: My 2 sons, 1 daughter and I farm around 320 acres and we are finished planting. Soybean seed is sprouted and should be up in a week. I also operate a livestock farm, beef cow herd and sheep and we should be close to baling hay by the end of May.

   

  • 5/13 - Palo Alto County, Iowa: Finally got going Saturday working ground. Definitely not ideal conditions but if guys can make it across the field without getting stuck they are going. Hope that this crop isn’t going to be a dud since were planting in the mud. This is definitely one of those years people will talk about for generations in this area.
    

   

  • 5/13 - East central Iowa: Areas around me received between .5 and 3 inches of rain Thursday evening. Some guys were able to get back to planting Sunday evening, with most going again today (Monday). Almost everyone seems to not be looking at the calendar. Most don’t want to take a chance of mudding it in, only to have the rain start missing them and then having a mess the rest of the year. The hay really took off the last 10 days, taking advantage of the warm spells that were in between the cold periods. Now it will be fun trying to get dairy quality hay made in the next 7-10 days and try and plant at the same time.

   

  • 5/13 - Wells County, Ind.: Finished corn Sat the 11th will start beans after switchover from corn to beans on Kinze split row planter.

   

  • 5/13 - Fayette County, Pa.: 40 percent corn planted.  50 percent beans planted. Conditions were great until Tuesday, it’s been raining off and on since.  Too windy for any spraying.  First beans are up and praying that it doesn’t frost either of the next two nights. 
    

    -- Fayette County, Pa. (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.)

    
    

   

  • 5/13 - Christian Country, Ky.: I have planted 100% of my corn and 80% is up. I might have to replant 20 acres because of rain. The county is about half planted and 90% up. We’ve had over 15 inches of rain this year so far.
    

   

  • 5/13 - Corson, S.D.: Half mile visibility yesterday from blowing dirt. Most farmers are canceling their seed corn orders. Spring wheat is coming up but in trouble, only 2" of rain here since July & Aug. of '12'. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

   

  • 5/13 - Coles County, Ill.: Still have standing water from the last rain and we got another 1 3/4" and now it is cool and cloudy with more predicted for Thursday. We’ve had 9.5 inches the last half of April and 3.4 so far in May, so it is soggy. So even if we would see some dry weather, it will take a while to dry out enough to do any field work. I have nothing planted and I am not alone. All of the green you see on the satellite maps are weeds, not crops. We reached the saturation point for what the soil can absorb and every little rain now floods.

   

  • 5/13 - South central Nebraska: Corn planting is crossing the finish line in this area. Some beans being planted.

   

  • 5/13 - Lincoln County, Mo.: Another 1 inch rain. Nothing planted. Wheat yellowing in standing water areas. Have not seen much sunshine in weeks. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

   

  • 5/13 - Green County, Wis.: Hoping to plant about 110 acres of corn and 120 acres of soybeans. As of 5/8 I had 70 acres of corn planted. Around 25 projected corn acres might have to be switched to beans, because it's still too wet.
    

    -- Green County, Wis. (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.)

    
    

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  • 5/10 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Neighbor tried to put in his test plot today, planted eight rows and quit. The planter was solid mud. We gotta have ten days of drying to get this to work somewhat decently. Some guys have really mudded it in and it doesn’t look pretty.
    

   

  • 5/10 - Benson County, N.D.: Text message from my son driving today from Devils Lake to Grand Forks, N.D. (90 miles): 1 planter seeding, 2 stuck, four wheel drives stuck and 3 fertilizer floater spreaders stuck. Ya think we’re are getting nervous?

   

  • 5/10 - Southeast Minnesota: Had a few nice days prior to relinquishing any drying progress to rain the past two days. You know the ground is saturated when your basement seeps water that hasn't happened before. Goal was to plant as much corn as possible but glad I have the flexibility to switch to beans. Then again, prevented plant guarantees a decent return with no risk, if it comes to that. It worked for many two years ago in our area. Our optimum planting date for corn is May 10. Zero, nothing, nada done in our area. Our ten day forecast leaves me uneasy. The real question is when is it appropriate to say "Houston we have a problem."

   

  • 5/10 - McIntosh County, N.D.: Top soil on the soybean and sunflower ground is dry. The discs on the drill are shined up. Could use rain. Some corn is planted in the area.
    

   

  • 5/10 - Winnebago County, Iowa: Planted 4/28-30. Corn’s almost up. 2-3 days out from planting again.

   

  • 5/10 - Pepin County, Wis.: Finally!! Got the new planter going Tuesday and Wednesday, got 250 acres done before Thursdays rains came.

   

  • 5/10 - Spartinburg, S.C.: 120 acres planted of 150 at Caroland Farms. This has taken three weeks. We should finish today or tomorrow. It has been very wet.
    

   

  • 5/10 - McDonough County, Ill.: New word to get use to here. Variability or perhaps more closely volatility. It describes the weather, markets and politics. No planting done my farm, some have planted corn. They must have good tile system or as I suspect once surface dry, tramped her in anyway! 10.5"rain since April 1 and raining again today. Every rain event seems to give us the larger amount. What a difference a year makes. Roast to soup. Lots of flood debris to clean up in river bottoms yet.
    

   

  • 5/10 - Bedford County, Pa.: Planters were rolling until over 2" of rain last fell in the last 2 days. Some corn spiking after 10 days in ground, neighbors planting soybeans. Temps still dipping to lower 40's. Forecast for cold front to move thru tomorrow, possible frost in places. Hoping to make first crop alfalfa next week. Small grain (barely) headed out so this moisture timed it perfectly. Warmer temps and less moisture forecasted for end of next week.

   

  • 5/10 - Cole County, Mo.: Almost no corn planted and no beans planted. Hay fields are wet, with very little harvested. More rain today (5/09/13).

   

  • 5/10 - Lancaster County, Pa.: Full season corn, 66% of acreage, finished 5/7/2013. Some of the best overall soil moisture conditions in my 38 years of planting corn. 33% of acreage in barley and wheat will be double cropped in to additional corn and soybeans. Small grains look healthy, with no signs of disease currently, in spite of cooler and damp conditions. All small grains had one application of fungicide, preparing for second application on wheat. Frost in the forecast for Sunday night. Stay tuned...BE SAFE. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

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  • 5/9 - Fayette, Ind.: We have put in only 200 acres of corn and now have to stop, no seed. Purchase seed from DYNAGROW last November and has not arrived yet. They can't even tell me when it will get here. Never buy DYNAGROW again, too big of a risk!
    

   

  • 5/9 - Faribault County, Minn.: Virtually no corn planted here, maybe 1 or 2 percent.   Raining right now.  10 day shows sunny and warm temps after a possible frost Sunday morning with a new chance for a thunderstorm next Wed.  If we miss that rain, it shows a wet weekend after this coming one.  Seems like the "clear" long range forecast always changes to a slight chance of showers every time we get close.  Our ground needs several days of drying to get in shape.  We normally start around April 21-22 and hope to finish by May 10, tomorrow is the 10th and have not started yet.  Even in 1993 our worst crop ever, we planted some corn in April and our last field on May 23. 

   

  • 5/9 - Tuscola County, Mich.: Sugar beets are nearly all in and corn has been underway since early week. It seems to me that conditions have just now approached ideal as it's been a game of finding the lightest best tiled ground to date.

   

  • 5/9 - Chicot County, Ark.: The heavy clay soils are still wet to plant rice. Some farmers are having trouble getting the rice crop in without getting stuck. But as they fiercely try to plant the crop before June 1st, and with rain in the forecast this weekend, many farmers are planting what they can.
    

    -- Chicot County, Ark. (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.)

    
    

   

  • 5/9 - Wisconsin: Mother Nature – she is the QUEEN!

   

  • 5/9 - Louisville/Alliance, Ohio: Just started planting 5-5-2013. We have 120 acres of 250 acres of corn in, but the rain came. We hope to have our plowed ground done tomorrow. We have to go back and do the no-till ground. No beans in the ground yet, maybe two weeks until we start.

   

  • 5/9 - Fayette County, Pa.: Planted 11 acres corn May 3. Very little planting yet.
    

   

  • 5/9 - Mercer County, northwest Illinois: This is what our equipment has been doing for the past week. Planted 200 hundred acres May 2nd in less than good conditions. Then came another 2.6 to 4 inches of rain on Friday the 3rd.  Still mud here with another inch forecast for tonight and tomorrow.
    

    -- Mercer County, northwest Illinois (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.)

   

  • 5/9 - Snyder County, Pa.: Planting corn and soybean got in 121 acres of soybean and 115 of corn. Great weather here. Rain today (1.6 inches). Everybody hard at planting.

   

  • 5/9 - Palo Alto County, Iowa: Wet and getting wetter tonight and tomorrow. Planting in the area is very spotty mostly on sandy soil. Next week looks like it will be dry for a few days but in most of our area it will take until mid-week before it will be fit. It’s gonna be hard not to mud it in with the 20th creeping up on us.

   

  • 5/9 - Plymouth County, Iowa: Switched all beans. I feel better all ready. The market is night right right yet, but by the time I apply manure, fertilizer, spray, tillage and plant just not going to kill myself with all-nighters. After 40 years bottom line is I just can't do it anymore. Going to enjoy working cattle today because I have plenty of time now.
    

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  • 5/8 - Henry County, Ohio: Calendar farmers have been going full speed with corn and soybean planting. Some have not started still waiting on ground conditions to improve.

   

  • 5/8 - Grant County, Ind.: Field cultivated all day and the ground is really wet underneath. The planters are running all around here. If the land could talk back to the farmers it would be saying you are compacting me! Planting corn we are, but not in ideal conditions and it will equal lower yields. Hope USDA UNDERSTANDS that planting corn in wet conditions does not mean bin busting yields!

   

  • 5/8 - East central Iowa: Most planters started running Tuesday afternoon. I think just about everybody will hit it hard today. 1/2 to 1 inch on the way for Thursday. Planting on top of the bluffs next the Mississippi River.
    

    -- East central Iowa (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.)

   

  • 5/8 - Carroll County, Md.: Planted on 5-6 to 5-8, now raining and cold. Very little corn up here even after in the ground for 3 weeks.

   

  • 5/8 - Huntingdon County, Pa.: All finished planting corn and beans. Sure could use some rain. Hope you guys in the Midwest send us some soon. The wheat is growing but it is not a deep green. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

   

  • 5/8 - Northwest Saskatchewan: What a difference a week of Sun, Heat and Wind makes. 3 days ago the frogs started croaking, a sure sign! Now the farmers here are Quading around to see which is the best navigational route. I'm sure everyone will be rolling and spinning around here by next week. Busy times are good times, good luck to all.
    

    -- Northwest Saskatchewan (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.)

    
    

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  • 5/7 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: Wheat in SW Cheyenne County and N Logan County, Colo., has nonexistent spots and thin spots throughout. Very, very few fields are consistently looking uniformly good. Wheat is at least 3 weeks behind normal. We now have a longer period of hail risk and damage from excessive heat. Looks to be a very interesting summer. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

   

  • 5/7 - Woodbury County, Iowa: Very few acres planted in this area. There has only been one day this season, April 30, where conditions were fit but few went to the field because of the cold weather. I planted 12 acres and then had 2" of snow the next day. Corn has not sprouted yet. Too wet to plant today. Thunderstorms predicted for this evening.
    
    
  • 5/7 - Poweshiek County, Iowa: We are about 40% planted on corn before this last snow event. First we planted on Sat the 27th is sprouted and should be up in 2 or 3 days if we can keep 75 degrees in the forecast. More rain on Wed and Thurs in the forecast on top of the 12.9 inches we have had since April 8. Now we are wet!

   

  • 5/7 - East central Iowa: 2" of rain (no snow, thankfully) last Thursday/Friday. We have been fortunate enough to have had the sun Saturday, Sunday and Monday with rain in the forecast Wednesday night. I think today (Tuesday) it will be balls-to-the-walls fieldwork. I plan on starting the planter back up later this morning and run as hard as I can until the rain moves in. We all know what that could mean...the rain doesn’t materialize, and then 10 days from now we are praying for it to cover up some mistakes the were made. Time will only tell. Once again, we feel luckier than most to hopefully make some progress. By the way, are the traders trying to tell us something by not caring that virtually no corn is in the ground yet as of May 7th?

   

  • 5/7 - Wells County, Ind.: Running anhydrous should get done tomorrow, then we’ll start planting corn.
    

   

  • 5/7 - Rapides Parish, La.: Finished fertilizing milo 5/1 right ahead of 1 inch rain. Today, I hope to get layby herbicides out on milo. Have 60 acres of bean land left to plow because of wet conditions this spring. Should get started planting soybeans this week. Good luck and be safe.

   

  • 5/7 - Kimball County, Neb.: None planted here.

   

  • 5/7 - Grant County, Minn.: Floaters and planters started rolling on select fields on 5/2/13. Wheat, beans, corn and sugarbeets all being planted. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

   

  • 5/7 - Mower County, Minn.: 15" in snow last Wednesday. It is mostly gone now, water standing all over, and very, very little corn in the ground! Tile vent pipe's flowing water!

   

  • 5/7 - Montcalm County, Mich.: Planter is headed to the field on our farm today. We have 900 acres of corn and 450 acres of beans to get in. Right now we have about 300 ready to plant with another 300 - 400 we can start getting on if this weather holds. The rest is still really wet with some standing water still.

   

  • 5/7 - Boone County, Ky.: 65 acres of corn planted last Friday and Saturday. There was a 30% chance of rain on Sunday….we got 2.5 inches.
    

   

  • 5/7 - Otoe, Neb.: 20% done planting. The forecast is not good for 2 weeks.
    

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  • 5/6 - Kossuth County, Iowa: 100% in the bag, unplanted that is, both corn and soybeans. Climates change...

   

  • 5/6 - Northern Stearns County, Minn.: Hauled manure this weekend and chiseled it in. I am going to pick rocks this week and start planting corn Thursday and hopefully be done by Sunday. Ground is cold but yesterday's sun helped dry things out. Supposedly to be around 70 degrees all week. Soil moisture is excellent.
    

   

  • 5/6 - Montgomery County, Mo.: We've been having cold rain, so no planting. 3.5 inches rain over weekend. drove across state to KC, saw 1 field planted next to I-70, couple more at KC. Can't imagine how they'll get a stand. Heavy snow flattened the wheat. Calling for 60% more rain Thursday. Old saying "when it's tough to get it planted, it'll turned out good." Worked last year. Went in beautiful and turned out horrible. So I guess we got perfect weather after all!! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

   

  • 5/6 - DeKalb County, Ind.: 7 acres of corn planted with 16 row planter so far. It is wet, wet, wet. Just a lucky few are planting, those with sandy soils. Need 3 to 5 days of decent drying to dry up some of these fields.

   

  • 5/6 - Lac Qui Parle County, Minn.: No corn in the ground yet. Next week weather sounds better. 750 acres fertilizer spread and 500 acres worked.40 degrees this morning again.
    
    
  • 5/6 - Franklin, Pa.: Cool here and a little dry. Planters in the fields and running full steam. Looks like small grains are going to be a little short.

   

  • 5/6 - Greeley County, Neb.: Virtually no planting in area as of 5/4/2013. 6 inches of beautiful moisture since April 9th. 30 degrees this morning and 26 degrees yesterday morning. Was done with corn planting at this time last year.

   

  • 5/6 - Bulgaria: Targovishte wheat is in very good condition. Zaâvaneto is in progress of hybrid sunflower seeds. Rain is not having 25 days, but is very necessary. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

    -- Bulgaria (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.)

    
    

   

  • 5/6 - Marion County, Iowa: Had 4-5 inches of snow yesterday (Friday) some corn planted Monday through Wednesday, some guys didn't start others near compete, even some beans planted. Progress maybe 25%, normal would be 90% here. The agronomists and farmers are very nervous here with snow on the ground and rain forecasted for next week.

   

  • 5/6 - South central Minnesota: No planting here 5-8’’ of snow.

   

  • 5/6 - Polk County, Iowa: Drove from Des Moines to Kansas City this Friday afternoon. 33-34 degrees and snowing all the way. Snow covered all the ground in Iowa, spotty snow cover to KC. Standing water everywhere. Saw only 3-4 fields that had been planted and they were wet, wet, wet. 8 inches of wet snow in Central Iowa since this started and half has melted. Forecast for 1-2 inches of rain to come and very slowly warming temps. We had planted 100 acres (of 600) corn before the rain started. Suspect that as wet and cold as it has been, and will be, it will need replanting. It will be mid-May before we get back in the field - that is if the sun comes out, as forecast, by mid- week.
    

   

  • 5/6 - Greene County, Ohio: Anyone in Iowa or Minnesota look at the extended weather forecast? Or do they have frost proof seed out there?

   

  • 5/6 - Eaton County, Mich.: Nobody doing anything in the fields yet! We are wet and we are going to get a dry stretch this next week, maybe next week we can get started.

   

  • 5/6 - Saunders County, Neb.: This Saunders County field was planted to corn Wednesday (May 1), followed by rain and then snow on Thursday. See this week's story on how cold soil water can affect the imbibitional process in soybean.  (Photo by Mark Schroeder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
    

    -- Saunders County, Neb. (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.)

    
    

   

  • 5/6 - Pepin, Wis.: Received 10 inches of snow and I know rain going to start as soon as snow is gone on our irrigated sands up near Eau Claire.

   

  • 5/6 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Cool and windy here today. Had about 1" of moisture in the rain/snow event on 1May.The moisture is very welcome, but the temps stink. At least there will be some grass when it finally warms up enough to allow it to grow. No leaves on any trees, and the plum bushes are just starting to show blooms-last year they had already set plums by now. About 50-60% planted on corn. Good luck to all.

   

  • 5/6 - Corydon, Iowa: This picture was taken this morning in the yard of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office Corydon, Iowa near the Iowa/Missouri Border in South-central Iowa. 9-12" snowfall totals from last night. Was near 90 degrees on Tuesday. I have a little corn and beans both planted but the worst part is the cow/calf on green grass with little hay left in the drought stricken area.
    

    -- Corydon, Iowa (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.)

   

  • 5/6 - Lancaster County, Neb.: It must be the southern part of Lancaster County that is half planted (see comment below) because in the North maybe 5% planted on corn and no beans. Planters 1 or 2 rolled a little on Sat. the 27 and a few more by Monday and Tuesday. Then hit with 1" of rain, then sleet then snow and below 32 temps. Will be a while, next rain predicted for Wed. at 70% chance. It was plenty wet when we started Sunday morning. Fields that haven't had any spraying done are looking pretty ugly.

   

  • 5/6 - Hancock County Iowa: 10 inches snow yesterday. 8 1/2 inches rain last three weeks, but we needed it all. Less than 1/2% of corn planted. This to shall pass. Be careful all, let's enjoy harvest.
    

   

  • 5/6 - Runnels County, Texas: Our wheat is dry and has some freeze damage, a very poor crop. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

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  • 5/3 - Chippewa, Wis.: We were just getting dried out enough to maybe start spreading manure. 81 on Monday and then we get socked by Achilles and are left with 8+ inches of snow and up to 16 inches to the west. Will be a couple of weeks before anything is planted around here. I sure do miss that "global warming" of last year.

   

  • 5/3 - Brown County, S.D.: Some tillage but last two nights’ temps were record lows. No planting yet.
    

   

  • 5/3 - Buffalo County, Wis.: Corn planters still in the shed yet. Nobody planted corn here yet and some small grain was put in last Sunday. We just had 8 plus inches of snow Thursday and going to rain for the next 2 days. Not good things are going to be late here.

   

  • 5/3 - Lancaster County, Neb.: Planters started rolling in our area on April 25th and with the large planters and 7 days of warm weather most farmers have at least half of their corn in. Soybean planting also started but less than 10% is planted. Cold wet weather is back and we probably won't get back in the fields before May 6th.

   

  • 5/3 - Stanton County, Neb.: A few young guys planted on April 29 and 30. One guy was planting at 2 A.M., I suppose to beat the snow and the freezing temperatures. We are to be in the mid-twenties tomorrow morning. Most are waiting Mother Nature out a bit longer (a week or two) before panic mode sets in.
    
    
  • 5/3 - Moultrie County, Ill.: Big thunderstorm this P.M. dumped 1.5" in 10 min. We were within 48 hours of being dry enough to plant our first field of corn. Forecast for another 2" by Sunday pm!

   

  • 5/3 - Freeborn County, Minn.: We’ve had 10+inches of snow. We can't haul manure let alone start to plant corn yet. Some have started: but on light ground

   

  • 5/3 - Chicot County, Ark.: Wheat looks good, and the corn looks good, but a little thin in some places. Soybeans look great. We started planting last day in March/first week in April. I have finished planting I got an inch of rain May the first. When I went to get my first bean seeds, my seed dealer told me he was going to dig a hole and put me in it with no cloth on to see how I liked it (referring to the to the bean seeds). But as of today, I have beans about six inches tall. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
    

   

  • 5/3 - Kearney County, Neb.: Lot of corn planted around here last week. We're 85% done but questioning my sanity for doing so with the cold temps and a slow warm-up in the forecast. Got a quarter inch of rain so I have taken the last couple of days off the tractor.

   

  • 5/3 - DeKalb, Mo.: Yard is white. T-shirts yesterday. Lot of planters rolling since last Saturday. Some corn was planted early April, can't see any of it up yet but heard that crop adjusters are telling them to wait and see. Any piece of ground that can handle a 4wd and 16-row planter is being planted. Some ground that has never seen daylight is now being broken. 1 good crop and corn is back to $2. God forbid if something happens to the ethanol market.

   

  • 5/3 - Manitowoc, Wis.: We have a huge amount of winterkill on our alfalfa and SRW in EC WI. Our extension agent says it is all across WI into MN. Guys are scrambling to try to find emergency forage seed here in dairy country.
    

   

  • 5/3 - Ottawa County, Okla.: Only had 5 corn planting days since March 15th. Got 1/2 my planned acres in and insurance closed April 30. Remaining corn acres will switch to milo. Most here got zero corn planted. However, my winter canola seems to like this weather!
    

    -- Ottawa County, Okla. (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.)

   

  • 5/3 - Saunders County, Neb.: Had 3-4" snow Wednesday night plus 1" rain during the afternoon. Just planted part of Monday and Tuesday. Not too many farmers going yet because of the cold temps. 30 degrees this morning.

   

  • 5/3 - Sibley County, Minn.: Several inches of snow last night. Corn planting continues to be delayed, at least two weeks from any seeds going in the ground, expect yields to be reduced 10% to 15% and that is if we get decent weather the rest of the year.
    

   

  • 5/3 - Mitchell County, Iowa: We have not been to the field as of May 2 and we are receiving snow today. We have currently 8-10 inches on the ground and still snowing schools closed for the day and it is supposed to be a high of 39 degrees tomorrow with rain. I am considering on chaining my 103 day corn in for some 99 day corn if I get my hands on some. We probably won't be the field next week this time unless there is a drastic change in the weather.

   

  • 5/3 - Hancock County, Iowa: No planting in northern Iowa for a while! Picture taken May 2nd!
    

    -- Hancock County, Iowa (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.)

   

  • 5/3 - Seward County, Neb.: The field in the picture is planted.  Soil Temp at 4", 40 degrees this morning.  This area is 10% planted.  Five more days of cold wet weather before it even dries out here.  No measurable snow in May here since 1967.  We had about 2" snow yesterday and last night.  We completed corn planting on 4/26 last year.  Our farm has not planted an acre yet.  This weather will not be good to planted seeds as temps are going to remain well below average. 
    

    -- Seward County, Neb. (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.)

    
    

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  • 5/2 - Wabasha County, Minn.: Over 12'' of snow overnight. No small grains planted or anything yet. A lot of winterkill in 2nd year or older alfalfa stands, plowing mine all up. Will be 10-14 days till we can start anything. Good luck to all this year.

   

  • 5/2 - Kent County, Ontario: This time last year corn planting 100% complete. This year 0%. If last year was global warming, I want more.
    

   

  • 5/2 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Rain, hail, sleet and thunder snow, the only thing we haven’t gotten outa this one is a twister. Couple guys planted a little, but most are still trying to put on fertilizer. Tomorrow night’s lows in the lower twenties. No planting here until possibly late next week if we get good weather.

   

  • 5/2 - Southwest Nebraska: Wheat is poor. Insurance adjuster put my uncle's at 3 bu./ac. and a neighbor had his at 4 bu./ac. It will be destroyed ASAP. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

   

  • 5/2 - East central Iowa: I finally started planting corn, even though I shouldn’t be. They are talking about a low of 38 degrees…with cold rain. Video courtesy of scotthinch’s YouTube channel.
    
    

   

  • 5/2 - Graves County, Ky.: 875 acres of corn in the ground. This time last year we were done. A lot of farmers are thinking this will be a repeat of 09, will see. As of now, I would cut my corn yield by 15 to 20%.

   

  • 5/2 - Southeast Minnesota: Maybe the USDA can correct some optimum planting dates in that magic hat.
    

    -- Southeast Minnesota (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.)

   

  • 5/2 - Sac County, Iowa: Planted corn April 28/29 but stopped on the 30th because of weather forecast. On May 1 we had 0.8 inches of rain and 3 inches of snow, with a forecast of 6 inches and temperature of 32 degrees. Estimate 15 % of corn in the ground.
    

   

  • 5/2 - Kossuth County, Iowa: Neighbor planted corn in this field yesterday (4-30-2013), might be a while before you can row it!
    

    -- Kossuth County, Iowa (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.)

   

  • 5/2 - Winona County, Minn.: 4-8 inches of snow tonight through tomorrow. Storm to affect us for several days. .001% with seeds in the ground here. Top surface was just about getting where we could have done something. All mud under the surface. Lots of Terra Gators buried around here along with manure spreaders buried to the axles. 1 inch of rain last night. It’s gonna be a while before we get going here. At least 10 days min. Be safe.
    

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  • 5/1 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: We have 3 in. snow in the ground, more to come. We have 28 degrees with light snow. We'll take the moisture. Isn't global warming wonderful?

   

  • 5/1 - O’Brien County, Iowa: Over 70 degrees last couple days. A lot of corn went in but, we’re not done. Now snowing and high of 40. It could be a week before we are back in the field. Gotta love spring!
    

   

  • 5/1 - Canton, Mo.: From Farm Journal Media’s Pam Fretwell: I found some emerged corn in Canton, Mo. It was planted about 2 weeks ago. It is not looking good, but you can row it in some places.
    

    -- Canton, Mo. (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.)

   

  • 5/1 - Lincoln County, Wash.: Only 2.2 inches of moisture the first 4 months of the year! 30+ mile an hour winds the last several days and 16 degrees this morning. The winter wheat has been slowly deteriorating. Temperatures expected in the 80's and no precipitation for the next couple of weeks. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

   

  • 5/1 - Nobles County, Minn.: May 1st in southwest Minnesota and it still look like February. And we're going to plant more corn acres according to USDA. I don't think so! There will be NO corn planted here until mid-May. And the little bit of corn that is in the ground will get a tough start. Enjoy your Spring?
    

    -- Nobles County, Minn. (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.)

    
    

   

  • 5/1 - Meeker County, Minn.: Nothing moving and snowing today.

   

  • 5/1 - Pottawattamie County, Iowa: Started planting yesterday to check out our new planter. The dealer said to hold off because of cold rain. Planters have been rolling since Saturday P.M.

   

  • 5/1 - Warren County, Ky.: Hay has dramatically been cut in terms of production. Fescue and or chardgrass has already started to head out at about ten inches tall. This will not yield much tonnage per acre. We need some warm weather real quick.
    

   

  • 5/1 - Pennsylvania: 0 planted. The soil is too cold.

   

  • 5/1 - Oliver County, N.D.: Air seeders are starting to roll in the area. We started this afternoon with spring wheat. Going on sunflower ground and was working nicely. Stubble ground is still pretty wet. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

   

  • 5/1 - Hancock County, Iowa: Today was the 1st day we might have been able to plant. However, crop scouts & Monsanto discouraged it because of the rain and cold for the next 5 days. We've had 9+ inches of rain over the past month and not a pond sitting in the fields. That is how dry we were. 75 degrees today and snow predicted for the week, only in Iowa!
    

   

  • 5/1 - Cuming County, Neb.: Weather coming in, 2 to 4 inches of snow for May 1! Looks like the USDA should think about the record crop of snow peas this year.

   

  • 5/1 - Balcarres, Saskatchewan Canada: We still have a lot of the winter snow left on the fields here. some areas got about 10 inches of snow again today. We usually start the 1st week of May. With all the snow and water on the field now could be the 1st week of June if at all. In 43 years of farming never seen the winter snow left on fields on the 1st of May. This will be our 4th year of poor seeding conditions. Good Luck to all!! May God send his Blessings

   

  • 5/1 - Franklin, Pa.: Some corn planted, small grains are short. The hay is growing. Last year was two weeks earlier than average, this year is a week behind average.
    

   

  • 5/1 - Livingston County, Mo.: As of April 30, no corn has been planted. 80 today some nh3 go on. May 1 calling for 80 dropping to 36 overnight.

   

  • 5/1 - Saline County, Kan.: 10% planted corn. We started April 3. It is just now coming up.

   

  • 5/1 - East central Iowa: There are three types of farmers over here: 1. Those who are planting full bore. 2. Those were waiting until after this cold and wet weather goes through. 3. Those of us who don't know what group to join.
    

   

  • 5/1 - Northern Indiana: In northern Indiana, where temperatures are in the 80s this week, area farmers may get a small window to plant, according to an I-80 Planting Tour update from AgDay’s Tyne Morgan. Jason Wykoff farms around New Carlisle and Granger, Ind. He says it’s been a frustrating year, especially considering the record planting pace in 2012.
    
    

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• 4/30 - Washington County, Ore.: This is the warmest and driest springs in quite a while. Irrigation is getting started, planters are rolling. We are 2 to 3 weeks ahead of the past couple of years. A neighbor planted corn on April 24th, and it was starting to emerge on the 29th. The forecast is for a week of 80 degree temps.

 

• 4/30 - Farbault, Minn.: No planting here.
  

 

• 4/30 - Barry County, Mich.: Still to wet for any field work. 10+ inches of rain, rivers in fields are gone, waiting for the lakes to disappear.

 

• 4/30 - Henry County, Ohio: Some corn planted on sandier soil early last week. Will take at least a week or more of drying before planting on heavier clay soil will begin. Although there will be some that can’t wait that long and the mud will be flying.

 

• 4/30 - Mower County, Minn.: Nothing planted yet and looks like a wet week coming, along with cool temps later in the week.
  

 

• 4/30 - Sangamon County, Ill.: As of 4/29 the only thing growing in our fields are chickweed and henbit. 3 weeks ago we worked all the conventional tilled ground to kill weeds, but the 3" rain that came 2 days later has kept most of it growing. Some corn was planted in the area at that time and still hasn't emerged. It has sprouted, but has 1 1/2" to 2" of damp hard ground to go through to reach daylight.

 

• 4/30 - Gray County, Kan.: Wheat is shot. 22 degrees on April 24 so the wheat is froze out. No corn planted in the area, as there is no heat sink in the soil. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/30 - Greeley, Neb.: Planters started over the weekend and are really after it. The weather is expected to change with rain/snow Tuesday night into Wednesday. We need all the moisture we can get. April was good to us, but we are so very short in subsoil. The ranchers need it for grass.
  

 

• 4/30 - Audrain County, Mo.: We had another 1 1/2 of rain over weekend. It has been too wet to burn down. No field work done at all. Still trying to get second shot of nitrogen on wheat. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/30 - Western Walsh County, northeast North Dakota: Last Friday morning our fields were still 99% snow covered, and the road ditches still full of snow. Today (4/29) the snow is 90% gone. I've never seen such a rapid melt, and so much water run off as it did Sunday. Every stream came out of its banks. Maybe we will get going in a couple weeks if it doesn't rain.

 

• 4/30 - Darke County, Ohio: We are staying too wet to do any field work. .5 inches on Sunday. A few neighboring fields were sprayed for burn down last week but they were marginal the sprayers cut tracks in spots we will wait for better field conditions before we attempt any spraying. Also would like to see some warmer temps to get better control of problem weeds. If no more rain maybe by the weekend we may be able to do something.
  

 

• 4/30 - Southwest Michigan: The last 16 days we have seen almost 8 inches of rain. Ground temps are still in the low 40s and the ground is saturated. We had plenty of rain and snow over the winter to bring up our water table, now it has nowhere to go. A couple of farmers couldn't wait to start some field work, now they have rivers running down the chiseled rows. No planting that I have seen in the surrounding 6 counties. River levels are 5-7 feet above flood stage, so it will be awhile before anymore field work will start.

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• 4/29 - East central Iowa: Farmers hit the fields Friday in Jackson County. NH3 will wrapping up within a day or two. I saw 2 planners running. Rain in the forecast for every day this week, along with cooler temperatures by the end of the week. With any luck we'll get done with NH3 today and will be ready for the next stage.....planting. I feel very fortunate to be able to run these last couple days, compared to those of you who are too cold and or wet.

 

• 4/29 - Central Missouri: Not going to try anything but spraying this week with forecast for a cold wet weekend to come.
  

 

• 4/29 - Dane, Wis.: Most fields fairly dry with some lower pockets with ponding water in areas of 1 acre or less. Ground Temp at 41 degrees. Some planting of corn done east of Madison, Wis., <1% of acreage planted for most farmers.

 

• 4/29 - DeKalb County, Ind.: Rain, Rain, and more Rain. Nothing is done here, and it will be 10 days before much gets done here…probably a lot longer looking at the weather forecasts. It is starting to look like the spring of 1996, had 45 acres corn planted June 2th of that year out of 500. I spent the rest of June trying to plant soybeans. Rain makes Grain?

 

• 4/29 - Pottawattamie County, Iowa: Corn just started full bore on 4/28.
  

 

• 4/29 - Northumberland County, Pa.: Planters started Saturday afternoon for a few. Calling for rain showers tomorrow until Tuesday/Wednesday.  Depending on how much rain we get everyone will be at it. Wheat looks good everywhere also. Till the end of the week we will start with both beans and corn. Everyone have a safe planting season. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

• 4/29 - Palo Alto County, Iowa: Just dry enough to pick rocks around the wet spots and looks like a wet cold week ahead. Great to get the moisture but bad for our planting window. A couple planters going on sandy ground today but that is all that’s it. If we were to stay dry it would be the end of the week before much is done around here. It’s gonna be a stressful planting season if the weather forecast comes true.

 

• 4/29 - Targovishte, Bulgaria: Autumn crops is concerned in our district are developing very well. Moisture in the soil there, the weather is warm + 15 + 30 degrees. Low sowing sunflower and maize. We expect many good wheat yields 74-89 bushels/acre. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

  -- Targovishte, Bulgaria (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.)

 

• 4/29 - Crockett County, Tenn.: Corn 40-50%planted no cotton planted yet. Wheat beginning to head. Fields saturated. First corn planted 4-9 up and 2nd leaf emergence slow raining now and forecasted for more. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/29 - Iroquois County, Ill.: Well we've been hammered with rain the past two weeks. But this week seems clear enough that we might be able to get a jumpstart next week fingers crossed.

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• 4/26 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: Yesterday I spent some time on the web looking temperatures and duration of temps below 26 deg. This area where damage to jointed wheat occurred ran from Plainview, TX to Salina, KS. This includes much of the wheat growing area in TX,OK,KS and adjoining areas in CO and NM. This area includes locations that produce easily 1/2 of the HRWWW in the US. From market action either the traders in KC don't believe the damage is potentially as bad as it is or don't know about the freeze. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/26 - Wells County, Ind.: 1.2-1.5in of rain on our farms. One year today ago finished planting corn. Haven't even got anhydrous applicator out of tool shed yet this year. Will be awhile yet.
  

 

• 4/26 - East central Iowa: Spring field work has begun in Eastern Iowa.
  

 

• 4/26 - Teton County, Mont.: Wheat is starting to grow after two weeks of winter. Some fields are spotty, but warm weather should help. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/26 - Pennsylvania: The crops in Pennsylvania are starting to get in the ground. We have are corn and beans guys are cutting cover crops to feed to dairy cow we were short on feed here last summer. Manure will get hauled on these field and planters will be running till Saturday. I think till next weekend, there will be a lot of corn in the ground. Womelsdorf and Berks area we have next 5 to 7 day good weather on the way. Good luck to all.

 

• 4/25 - Western Walsh County, northeast North Dakota: In answer to Cheyenne County, Neb. question about HRSW beating the frost come fall.....plant early maturing varieties and prayer that Mother Nature gives us time in September to make up for growing season lost in April. All farmers understand we are not in control. God is. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/26 - Bedford County, Pa.: Planters are rolling!! Good soil moisture but temps are borderline highs are reaching 70 plus but lows are still dipping into the 30's. Seven day forecast shows temps increasing daily Winter crops are doing well First cut hay is about a week from silage harvest. Some bean growers are preparing for seeding next week.

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• 4/25 - Posey County, Ind.: Pasture good to excellent, corn and beans still in the bag.

 

• 4/25 - Rice County, Minn.: Love it, our ten day weather outlook puts us at a high of 42 degrees on 5/3. Sure we will hit 72 degrees on the 28th but it gets solid wet and cold again after that. Nothing planted here. Everything looks and feels like the month of March. Afraid to detach snowblower after using it again yesterday. Mother Nature is definitely going to call some bluffs this season.
  

 

• 4/25 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: Went east to Ogalalla yesterday. Tractors rolling on pivot irrigated corn ground (tillage, not planting). Came back on Highway 30. Wheat either did not emerge, blew out or the winter killed it in eastern Deuel County. Wheat locally is back in dormancy. Not done tillering or jointed yet. Looks like a late harvest this year. Question: With all the snow and cold in the Dakota's and Canadian Prairie provinces, how are they going to get spring wheat to mature before frost because of late planting? (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/25 - Nelson County, N.D.: No question about it, some corn acres will shift to other crops. It is looking like a best case/perfect conditions, we can start planting, maybe around 18-20 of May.

 

• 4/25 - Manhattan, Ill.: Sloppy conditions in Illinois have at least let farmers there quit worrying about the drought, according to an I-80 Planting Tour update from AgDay’s Tyne Morgan. Farmer Dave Kestel wishes he could be planting his corn right now. But, knowing that his soil is getting a much-needed recharge keeps him in a good mood.
  

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• 4/24 - Hamilton, Ind.: After today's rain subsides, central Indiana will have the 2nd highest April rainfall since 1891. With more rain over the next 6 days, April 2013 may be the wettest ever.

 

• 4/24 - Northern Stearns County, Minn.: Snow will be pretty much gone by tomorrow and then it will take a week of good weather before we can get in the fields. Hoping to get planting by May 5th. Excellent soil moisture going into planting season as much of these last 3 snowfall have soaked in, especially on flatter soils. Sounds like 60-70s finally coming up starting Friday.

 

• 4/24 - Sumner County, Kan.: 3/4 inch rain and 35 mph all night and cold, by noon some fences and trees in the northwest part of the county had ice on them, the high for the day was 37 and cold north winds. Tonight’s low around 26-28, there might be more than 25% lost acres, time is 10:30 pm snowing a little outside more records going down sense 1889, Good Luck everyone.

 

• 4/24 - East central Iowa: We were 1-2 days from getting into the fields when we received 1/4"+ of rain with snow showers. The forecast does hold out some hope. A chance of snow showers Wednesday night, followed by 3-4 days of dry and warmer weather. We hope to get a start on applying NH3 and new seeding in if it dries enough to get into the fields by Friday. Stock cow guys/gals (and dairy guys/gals) are not having their prayers answered either. Pastures and hay fields aren’t growing at all, which isn’t helping ease the hay supply/price at all. We cut hay last year at this time (which was 3-4 weeks early). Every day out of the field means one more walk around the planter to find another $500-1000 problem (or potential problem).
  

 

• 4/24 - Talbot County, Md.: Heavy frost on Monday (April 22). We just had 1.5" of rain over weekend. Wheat and barley are losing color due to lack of sun. It is gonna be a late wheat harvest. Some early corn is emerging on sandy soils but the majority are waiting for some warmer weather to plant. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/24 - Grant County, S.D.: There probably won't be any planting going on here for another 2 weeks, if we are lucky. Still there are snow drifts 4-5 feet tall in many areas. Already is coffee shop talk about going to an earlier variety, or just going to beans.

 

• 4/24 - Coles County, Ill.: Much of the standing water is slowly disappearing. I used a kayak and paddled out to the middle of a 10 plus acre pond in a 35 acre field to clean off a tile drop stand so it would finally drain. It is raining now and more rain in the forecast so I hope to get in the fields in may???

 

• 4/24 - Dodge County, Wis.: The ground is wet and cold; winter wheat is greening up in certain areas. No alfalfa green shoots except some grasses sprouting up. Small snow banks on the fence lines yet. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/24 - Jefferson County, Ill.: Wheat is looking good in the county, everybody has pretty much got all there nitrogen on and there still trying to spray for grass. I know some people that has worked ground but no planting has happened! We have had a lot of rain in the last month. We had almost 3 inches the 3rd week of April! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/24 - Hettinger County, N.D.: Last year we were done planting at this time, virtually nothing seeded around here now, got down to 12 degrees this morning. Northern half of county still has about 5 inches of snow on ground, southern half has less, don’t look for field work to start till May 1. Went to northern part of state and also the eastern half of state, will be lucky if they get in the field by May 20 at best. Hopefully summer temps will be on the lower side so things don’t burn up at flowering or heading stage.
  

 

• 4/24 - Southeast Kansas: 3 inches of rain in the last week. We are maybe 40% con planted. We were done with corn and early beans by now last year. Pasture is short. Wheat looks good but head is in the boot and weatherman says 29 tonight. Does not look like a good year shaping up. But look at the bright side traders think we’re going to raise bumper crops. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/24 - East central Iowa: Nothing is going here yet. Sunday turned out to be windy and warm (for this year), close to 60F and a 20-25 mph breeze. It did dry very nicely on top, but some ponding still remains from the 7"-8.5" of rain from last week. This year couldn’t be any different than from last year. Last year was very warm and dry. This year, very cold and wet. I would still take this year over last because we all know how last year ended up. In comparison: last year we cut hay on April 22, this year the hay isn’t 2" tall. Normally we cut first crop May 15-20. The forecast is for up to 1/2" of rain and temps in the 50’s. Not the greatest forecast, but better that last week. Happy farming to everyone.

 

• 4/24 - Berrien County, Mich.: Grain traders must not read crop comments. No corn planted here for the next 2 days. Highs in the 40's. We need the crop in the ground for rain to make grain maybe that is just old school.
  

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• 4/23 - Western Missouri: We are looking at freezing temps in the morning (4-24) here. Pastures are slow-growing here and we’re running out hay.

 

• 4/23 - Nobles County, Minn.: Another 6 inches of heavy wet snow here today again, and it's April 22! We have 4 foot drifts now in the groves and the ditches are level full of snow. Our low temp again tonight is in the low 20's and we are supposed to be planting corn? Maybe if we are lucky we will start in 3 weeks. That is a big if! Landscape looks much more like January than late April. And they hammer corn and beans down today. These traders are really in denial just how late this late planting is going to be.

 

• 4/23 - Northwest Minnesota: I would say this snow drift is 6ft deep. This is what things look like on April 20, and no change today the 23 of April. Temp is 15 above this mourning been a cold spring for calving, field work is probably 4 weeks away rivers just started to run.
  

  -- Northwest Minnesota (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.)

 

• 4/23 - Dodge County, Minn.: We just got 2 inches of snow last night with 1.25 in of rain. It is going to be at least a week or more before we walk in a field around here!!!
  

 

• 4/23 - O’Brien County, Iowa: As of this morning, snow covers the ground again for the 4th time in 2 weeks. Before that we got dry enough get manure spread. So know when every the weather turns (supposed to be in 70's by Friday) fertilizer will start. Good top 2'ft of soil moisture questionable after that.

 

• 4/23 - Pottawattamie County, Iowa: A few guys around planted corn 2 weeks ago before the rain came. Some just 15-20 acres to try out a new planter, others planted several hundred. It appears they will be replanting those acres. The seed is rotting in the cold wet soil. There is still a few guys that haven’t applied anhydrous yet. It will be off to the races when it dries up but that is going to take 5 plus days of dry weather as we have gotten 5-6 inches of rain in the last two weeks, and the ground is saturated on top. Still need a lot more subsoil moisture.

 

• 4/23 - Cass County, Neb.: One farmer has planted, but that’s it. The ground temp is 40. We always plant April 10. We got some good moisture (2.5 inches last 2 weeks). We are behind for us. We like to be done May 1, but I don't think we start until then.

 

• 4/23 - Logan County, Colo.: No planting here. Will be a good week as we continue to get more moisture. Rain and snow.

 

• 4/23 - Hall County, Neb.: Zero is what has happened here and will still be zero a week from today probably. Latest start to my career as a corn farmer of 37 years.

 

• 4/23 - Southern Minnesota: Planting will be late this year.  More snow and cold this morning.  We usually figure corn should be planted by the first week in May and we will definitely lose yields if it goes in after the 10.  We need a week to 10 days of sun and temps in 60s and 70s to get things in shape.  It will then take another week of good weather to plant.  Add that up, and it’ll basically take a straight 2 weeks of good weather to get the corn in.  With the forecast we have this is not going to happen by May 10.       
  

 

• 4/23 - Juneau County, Wis.: Cold and wet here. No change in sight. Still have frost and snow drifts. It's raining here now. Any field work is at least two weeks away. We are already three weeks behind.
  

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• 4/22 - Polk County, Iowa: 4+ inches of rain last week in Central Iowa Sat. Morning of Apr 20 we had 3/4 inch of ice in the bird bath and skim ice covered the pond which is still 4 feet low. Over 6 inch of rain at the Lucas Co farm (SC Ia). Field terraces everywhere were overtopped. Many roads and highways closed in SC Ia due to flooding, but water receeded as fast as it rose. Just two days after the rain stopped, gravel roads and dirt lanes were hard and dry. The hard driving rains just hammered everything. Forecasts predict at least two nights of lows in the 20's midweek. Zero - zero, spring field work done anywhere in central or south central Iowa.

 

• 4/22 - Lancaster County, Neb.: Raining this morning with about 3/4 of inch so far. It was just going to get dry enough to do some spraying on old bean ground, now it will be a while again. Moisture is welcome as we are still very dry from 2-4 ft in soil profile. Tuesday's low predicted at 23 high 41 soil temp Friday was 39 last year same date 59. Nice to hear thunder and see lightening and water puddles after last year.

 

• 4/22 - East central Iowa: We’ve had over 8" of rain the last 11 days. By my completely unofficial records, that is more than all of 2012. The forecast calls for showers for the next 7 days with no warm-up in site. The highest temperature predicted is 62F.
  

  -- East central Iowa (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.)

 

• 4/22 - Hillsdale, Mich.: We had over 3 inches of rain on Friday, April 19. We have built up water table with plenty of snow and rain. No corn planted in our area. The ground temp is 40 degrees. We’ll need heat for 1 week to start planting
  

 

• 4/22 - Pierpont, Ohio: Nothing in ground here yet-some ground worked last week--tiling 50 acres at 30 foot spacing-will be done this--makes worm heaven.

 

• 4/22 - Ottawa County, Mich.: Some wheat topdressing done 2 weeks ago. Then we had 11 inches of rain in last 7 days. The Grand Rivers is cresting tomorrow (Monday) at record levels. We had snow last Friday. The buds on fruit trees have not even swelled up yet. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/22 - Wells County, Ind.: We had 2 inches of rain this week and 3.5 inches last week. Will be the first week of May at least before getting to field. Calling for more rain next week with still cool temperatures.

 

• 4/22 - Southeast Indiana: Wet and cool here. 35 this morning. Received 4-5 inches of rain in the last 10 days. Trees are just now beginning to leaf out and looks like we'll start planting this year after when we finished up corn last year! Everyone be safe this spring!

 

• 4/22 - Yakima, Wash.: Planters are rolling all around here. Good moisture and temperature. We finished Friday.
  

  -- Yakima, Wash. (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.)

 

• 4/22 - Richardson County, Neb.: Prior to this week we had received about 10 inches of snow and 1.5 of rain since October. This week we received 4 inches of rain. We are a long way from having our subsoil replenished but the top few inches are wet now. Thus pasture is greening up and alfalfa looks good.
  

 

• 4/22 - McDonough County, Ill.: There are none planted here. We had 6 to 7 inches of rain Thursday and it was 31 degrees Sat morning. Global warming????

 

• 4/22 - Northwest Saskatchewan: I feel bad your soil down south is too cold to plant. Up here some of us would at least appreciate the snow going so we can complete last fall’s harvest. Our winter started Oct. 20th. and hasn't let up. Forget about Wheat or Durum soon we'll be looking for Radish seed as Barley and Oats is getting scarce. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

  -- Northwest Saskatchewan (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.)

 

• 4/22 - Murray County, Minn.: We’ve had 10-12 inches of last 10 days temps in the 30s. I don’t see any fieldwork before May.
  

 

• 4/22 - Clinton, Mich.: We’ve had over 7 inches in the past 10 days.

 

• 4/22 - Darke County, Ohio: NH3 went on perfect. Then rain started we are wet but missing the large amounts. Fall spraying still holding but fields without will be battling marestail from the start especially if it warms up and stays wet. Hay and wheat are looking good but could use warmer temps today 40 and blustery. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/22 - Polk County, Wis.: We have a fresh 4 inches of snow/sleet. Starting to warm up tomorrow thru the rest of the week. Won’t be in the fields till maybe May 5th. Depends on more rain coming next week.

 

• 4/22 - Mercer County, northwest Illinois: One year ago today we started planting corn and  planted 285 acres that day. Today, after receiving over 4 inches of rain in about 18 hrs. it began to snow.  Water ponds everywhere, basements flooded and Mississippi River flood warnings. What a difference a year makes. Looks like a late start this year, with rain forecast for the first three days next week, and cold temps.

 

• 4/22 - Wright County, Minn.: Snow amounts anywhere from 12" to 18". There won’t be any field work done here in April. There’s still plenty of ice to go fishing on!

 

• 4/22 - Walsh County, northeast North Dakota: A farmer friend from 180 miles west (north central part of ND) of here visited this morning. Said he did not see a patch of bare ground the entire trip.....just like the pic posted today from NE North Dakota, he couldn't find his airseeder, either. At least I parked my airseeder with the wings folded up, so I know where it is!!
  

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• 4/19 - Wallace County, Kan.: No moisture of any significance, we have been in exceptional drought since last July according to the Drought Monitor. Wheat didn't germinate last fall. The wheat that did come up has been stifled due to the drought, cold temps and wind. It is about done for. Maybe enough to germinate spring crops, but absolutely no subsoil moisture. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/19 - Northeast North Dakota: Well this should help any reports of crop progress in North Dakota for the month of April.  This picture was taken on April 19th and its 28 degrees so still no real melting yet and with more snow on the way in 5 day forecast.  In case u can't tell that would be a cultivator frame and well as my Airseeder frame that are barely sticking out of the snow.
  

  -- Northeast North Dakota (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.)

 

• 4/19 - Kosciusko County, Ind.: We had 3.5" of rain last night, added to the 1+" of rain we got last week. No spring field work done in this area. I'm 100% no-till. Was waiting on soil to warm up and cover crops to start growing before applying burndown. Now we will be waiting for the ground to dry out. Our normal start date to plant is today. 10 day forecast remains wet. Last night's rain has ditches over flowing with lots & lots of surfacing ponding in the fields.

 

• 4/19 - Coles County, Ill.: Last week we were dry and this week after 7 inches and counting we are flooded with 38 degrees this morning and sprinkles and a little sleet mixed in. I have nothing planted and it looks like nothing will get planted for a while with more rain in the forecast next week. Lakes in my fields and some roads under water means it will be to wet to plant into May.
  

 

• 4/19 - Brown County, Minn.: We had 9 inches of snow last night. It is drifting today.
  

  -- Brown County, Minn. (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.)

 

• 4/19 - Eaton County, Mich.: We have received over 7 inches of rain this month. Per our local TV station, this breaks the all-time record of 6.6. inches for the month. We now have lakes for fields with many roads having flooding problems

 

• 4/19 - Reno County, Kan.: Kiss the wheat crop goodbye. 24 degrees is tonight’s forecast. The wheat has been jointed for 2 weeks but we had ice on the plants that last freeze. Not the case this time. I measured how tall it was after the last freeze and it was 12 and three fourths inches tall. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/19 - McLeod County, Minn.: As of yesterday the 11 inches of snow we got last week was almost all melted except a few of the deeper drifts in the yard. Today by 8 PM we have gotten 8 inches for new wet heavy snow and it is still snowing. Ground temperature is 33 degrees. This may be the coldest April in history of this state. Average high so far this month is 38.6. Normal high is 58 for us in April.
  

  -- McLeod County, Minn. (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.)

 

• 4/19 - Brown County, Wis.: The good thing about all the rain we received in this week is that it finally warmed up enough to quit snowing! LOL! Zero field work as of 4/18. We will be lucky to get in fields by mid-May.

 

• 4/19 - Sumner County, Kan.: Wheat here looks good even after all the ice, today’s high was 40 with strong north winds. Tonight (April 18) its predicted to be 26, not good. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

 

• 4/19 - Iowa County, Iowa: Not a wheel has turned yet. 4 inches rain for the month of April, and then April 17th 6+ inches in 24 hours. Water everywhere you look wet, wet, wet. With forecast for the week of 22nd being cold and wet it is very possible that it will the 10th of May before we dry out for planting if it will just warm up to dry up.

 

• 4/19 - Buffalo County, Neb.: 3-4 inches of snow today, winds gusting to 40mph, with a high temp of 33. Needless to say there is no planting going on here. Forecast has warmer temps through the weekend, then cool/cold with a chance of snow again on Monday/Tuesday. So it will be awhile before planters roll. At least we are getting some much needed moisture. This will allow pastures to green up, but I doubt that there will be much grass before June.

 

• 4/19 - Harrison County, Iowa: Have had 5" rain in the last week. 1" snow today 4/18 nothing planted anywhere, switched from anhydrous to urea yesterday. It will be a week before we can do anything if no more rain. More is predicted Sunday/Monday.
  

 

• 4/19 - Brown County, S.D.: Very, very wet around here. The ground is all white and still froze. The soil moisture profile will be full when spring finally comes. Most farmers around here not concerned about switching to bean acres, equipment pretty large in this area, can get lots of acres done quick when it’s fit. Livestock producers and the cattle under tremendous stress from mud and snow, calf losses are much higher than last year! could be as high as 10-15% if we start having health issues, which will happen if we don't get some SUN & WARMTH SOON! This is definitely the spring from hell!!!!

 

• 4/19 - Poweshiek County, Iowa: We are located east of Des Moines about 60 miles on I-80. We have had 8.5 inches of rain in the last 10 days and have heard higher amounts to the south and east. Half of what we had during the growing season last year. Can't remember the last time we did nothing in April but it sounds like this may be the year.

 

• 4/19 - Berrien County, Mich.: According to the traders rain makes grain. But it needs to be planted first. We’ve had 3.5 inches in the last 2 days. We’ll have no April planting here.

 

• 4/19 - Sangamon County, Ill.: No corn planted ground worked chemicals put on. Waiting for dry weather and sunshine. 5.35 inches of rain in the past 10 days. Very doubtful if any corn will be planted in April. We are east of Rochester about 5 miles.

 

• 4/19 - Scott County, Iowa: Hey look, it's raining....  And raining.... And raining.....  Gotta love the law of averages.  Been in drought up til a couple of weeks ago. Now it won't quit raining.  We are up to 7" this week and nothing but rain in the forecast.  Fields are under water. Will take several weeks of decent weather to clean up this mess. 
  

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• 4/18 - West-Central Minnesota: I like planting some late maturity corn for this area, but called the dealer yesterday to switch it for an earlier hybrid. The dealer agreed. We haven't escaped winter and we are in a snowstorm right now with another ten inches on the ground and adding up quickly. We are told that it is supposed to start warming up later next week. I don't remember a year where everyone's machinery is still in the sheds at this time of the spring. I can't imagine that farmers north of us will want to plant much corn this year.

 

• 4/18 - Seward County, Neb.: Similar photo to last week, except this time its snow. Nothing planted here yet.  Soil temp. at 4" 38 degrees 11 AM. Rain .65" rain before the snow. Good and muddy here. Hopefully the drought is on its way out.
  

  -- Seward County, Neb. (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.)

 

• 4/18 - Nicollet County, Minn.: Talking one to two inches of rain next couple of days in south-central Minnesota. We need the rain? Nothing will grow without it.
  

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• 4/17 - Douglas County, Minn.: There is very little bare ground around here and we are forecasted to receive 4 to 10 inches of snow. Most of the road ditches are 50 percent full or better. There is still 2 to 3 feet of ice on the lakes with no sign of ice leaving the lakes any time soon
  

 

• 4/17 - Dooly County, Ga.: Corn planting has gone slow in Georgia, because of wet and cold soils. This is a far cry from the past 4 years when we were finished before April 1. We finally finished on the 14 of April. The corn that has been planted is off to a great start as daytime temps are in low 80's and night are in the mid 50's.
  

  -- Dooly County, Ga. (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.)

 

• 4/17 - Berrien County, Mich.: We went from bone dry to can’t walk off the yard. We had 1.25 of rain last night and there’s more in the forecast. There will be no planting for a while here.

 

• 4/17 - Wahpeton, N.D.: We are still sitting with about 2 feet of snow across the land and temperatures in the 20's at night. No real warm up forecast for at least another week. With normal precipitation, and continued cold temperatures, many of us are planning for the third week of May at best. This already eliminates a window for top production. Corn production above the I 94 corridor will not be possible. Corn will not make black layer before first frost date.

 

• 4/17 - Marathon, Wis.: Snow still in the fields. 3 to 4 feet of ice against machine shed doors. Haven't got any machinery out yet. Figure at least 2 weeks before moving. Last year I was done by May 5th.
  

  -- Marathon, Wis. (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.)

 

• 4/17 - Rice County, Minn.: It is cold and wet in our area. This is a complete opposite from our past two springs – way more discouraging. Our ten day outlook temp has just been reduced from 64 degrees to 46 for the high. Our continuing lows in the 30s and 20s! Snow still on the ground and more in the forecast. Going to take a while for soil to warm & dry to begin corn planting. What is the magic date to abandon corn planting from North Dakota and up?
  

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• 4/16 - East central Iowa: We received 5-6 inches of rain the last 9 days. The rain was very welcomed and warmer temps would be welcomed with it. We have the potential for another 1-2.5 inches (along with a chance of snow) the rest of this week. No field work has been done. Normally the oats/alfalfa is in as well as most nh3,fertilizer and pre-emerge herbicide. We are not late for planting here yet, normal start date is the 20-25 of April. The delay has allowed us to look over equipment again (or the first time) and replace anything that could cause further delays. This spring has been extremely tough on the stock cow guys and gals.
  

  -- East central Iowa (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.)

  
  

 

• 4/16 - Texas Panhandle: Started with some corn planting today. Should be Finnish strip-till by end of week and in full planting mode by next Monday. Need rain badly. Very, very dry.

 

• 4/16 - Hart County, Ga.: Guys in our area just started planting corn last week, it is wet! Our average temperature for March was lower than January and we've been averaging an inch of rain per week. We will finish chopping ryegrass and clover silage this week our cover crop for corn ground. I am proud to say I am a 30 year old rancher and farmer with my father, but the greatest frustration that I have is how the government has so much control and manipulation over the market. No government entity should have that power! If their ten year projections are right, which they aren't we can't even predict this year’s crop, I am ready to pay off my pivots and tractors over the next five years barely breaking even and park em. They don't manipulate the fuel prices nope! That's why very few college educated young people even bother coming back to the family ranch or farm! The photos below are of our corn last year and silage this year. Corn has no chance of being that good. 
  

  -- Hart County, Ga. (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.)

 

• 4/16 - Northern Utah: Snow flurries again today.  It is the middle of April and still cold in northern Utah. Froze again over the weekend for three days. Winter wheat is not growing. Too cold and staying dormant. Most all hard red winter wheat here was planted in dry dirt last fall. Most came up under the winter snow or during snow melt. Wheat is thin and doesn't look good at all. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/16 - Stutsman County, N.D.: Got our 13 to 18 inches of heavy wet snow they promised us. Have no idea now when we will be in the field. No warm weather in the forecast either. Corn acres will be down and bean acres up.

 

• 4/16 - Caldwell County, Mo.: Wheat looks real good, we put fertilizer down 12 days ago been wet ever since, planters will roll when we get dry weather, calling for rain all this week. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  

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• 4/15 - Franklin County, Neb.: After hail then freezing rain and sleet the HRW looks severely damaged at this time.
  

 

• 4/15 - Yakima, Wash.: Plenty of snow in the mountains for irrigation. Soil temp is 51 at 4 in. Fertilizer is on. Raining today. Will start planting corn and irrigation water on the alfalfa in a couple of days. Gonna be a great year.

 

• 4/15 - Ward County, N.D.: 14" of new snow and still snowing. There was no bare ground prior to this storm. Highs in the upper 20s. Snow in the forecast for this weekend. It is going to be late!!!! We were planting small grains this time last year.

 

• 4/15 - Oliver County, N.D.: 18 inches of snow on 4/14. Welcome moisture but will now be weeks before we will see the field.
  

 

• 4/15 - Livingston/LaSalle counties, Ill.: Wheat is looking good in this area, except for the small ponds that come and go with frequent rains. Most have applied N in some form or another. Most are applying in multiple trips to spoon feed the crop. No field work as yet other than a few oats seeded over Easter weekend. Soils still too cold and wet! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/15 - Chouteau County, Mont.: It's becoming quite dry here in the Golden Triangle. No significant moisture since mid-January. Winter wheat is starting to show stress from the cold dry conditions. Maybe North Dakota could send a little snow our way! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/15 - Ransom County, southeast North Dakota: This spring’s weather is unprecedented. The latest date temps in Fargo failed to make it to 50 degrees F was April 17th 1881. That’s some 132 years ago. We’re going to bury that record. There are no 50 degree temps in the 10 day forecast. Climate Change? Yep you can say that. Last years (Record) early start resulted in decent yields because nearly all the crops beat the heat of late July and August. I’m not so sure I should’ve sold any corn for 2013. The earliest we can be in the field is early May. A winter storm is bearing down on us right now threatening to drop 10-12 inches of snow, YUCK!

 

• 4/15 - Eaton County, Mich.: We received 4 inches of rain this past week with more due this coming week. We might get started May 1 if the lakes dry up.

 

• 4/15 - Nobles County, Minn.: Day 6 of snow/ice (LOTS OF ICE) storm. Most trees in area destroyed last Wed/Thurs. We have more snow on ground now then we had in Jan and Feb. And it is planting season? I have to chuckle at USDA's great wisdom that Minnesota is going to plant 250,000 more acres of corn this year and North Dakota is really increasing their acres. Can you plant corn with snowmobiles? Their numbers will not even be close in those two states. Something to think about.
  

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• 4/12 - Sibley County, Minn.: We have not planted anything. We are battling cold and wet weather. We are hoping to start planting by May 1st if it happens to warm up.
  

 

• 4/12 - Queensland, Australia: Waiting for wheat planting rain. We are quite lucky to have a reasonable profile of moisture. Just to the west of us is none. There will be a lot of the west of the eastern wheat in Australia miss out if there is not big planting 4" plus. Sorghum looks pretty good in this area, BUT area is back a good 50 percent. It must be great having a USDA that knows what is going to happen for next ten years!!!!! Our ABARE is only good for 12 months and even then they stuff it up completely. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/12 - Monroe County, Mich.: Much needed rain fell this week. About 2.5 inches here. Tile is running. We thought a week ago that we may stick some corn in this next week, but with the looks of the seven day forecast and the precip we just got- that start date looks a lot closer to the first of May. I won't rush it with $250/ bag seed corn.

 

• 4/12 - Stutsman County, N.D.: Still only 20% black ground showing here. Lots of snow around with 8 to 12 inches forecast for the weekend. We will need some good weather to get going by the first week of May. Farmers looking for shorter day corn already. There will not be all the corn planted in ND that they projected. North of us it is way worse. Could be the middle of May there.
  

 

• 4/12 - Williamson County, Texas: We are getting some good timely rains. Corn has been up, some hail and wind damage but it's looking good from the timely rains. Corn is at about the 4-7 leaf stage.
  

  -- Williamson County, Texas (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.)

 

• 4/12 - Cayuga County, N.Y.: We’ve had over 2 inches of rain in the last 3 days. With all the snow cover in upper Midwest still and eastern Corn Belt saturated, 98 million acres corn might be shrinking a bit USDA…

 

• 4/12 - East central Iowa: I received approximately 4 inches of rain last week. The lawns are greening up a little bit and so are the broad leaves. I have not turned a wheel, and the weather forecast looks like it will be at least a week off not longer.
  

  -- East central Iowa (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.)

 

• 4/12 - Adams County, Ind.: Got 3.25 inches of rain. Nothing in the ground here and will be awhile before any gets planted.

 

• 4/12 - Western Dickey County, N.D.: We had 6 or 8 inches of wet snow, we needed the moisture. Last year we were done planting corn by May 1 we probably won't start until then this year, ground is still frozen. The USDA reports are driving me nuts, I question their accuracy it seems like they are trying to manipulate the markets.
  

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• 4/11 - Berrien County, Mich.: Got a little rain the last day or so with heavy rain in the forecast. Temps close to freezing overnight in the forecast no planting for a while yet.
  

 

• 4/11 - Swift County, Minn.: It will be 2-3 weeks before anything gets started here. We have a foot of snow in the forecast for the next couple days.

 

• 4/11 - Seward County, Neb.: Planter covered with ice this morning. Last year on 4/12 some area super farmers had completed corn planting. No planting done here yet. Soil Temp at four inch depth 12 noon on 4/10/13 38 Degrees.
  

  -- Seward County, Neb. (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.)

 

• 4/11 - Walsh County, N.D.: Well it’s the 9th of April and it’s a chilly 18 degrees the high. With virtually no melting in my area yet, and no signs of warming up in the 10 day forecast. You hear many farmers talking about prevent planting in this area.

 

• 4/11 - Horry County, S.C.: Most farmers in the area will start transplanting tobacco this week with a few braving the cold nights of last and starting. With warm weather and good soil conditions, everybody has to pull together to get the crop out. Hoping for some light rain the end of the week to get the crop off to a good start. Most will try to have all the tobacco out within the next 2 weeks.
  

  -- Horry County, S.C. (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.)

  
  

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• 4/9 - Southeast Missouri: Started planting corn yesterday (4/8). Not bad considering we had snow two weeks ago! Fields are in great shape here in eastern Missouri... dry on top good moisture underneath. Hope it turns out better than last year!!
  

 

• 4/9 - Lancaster County, Neb.: Fertilizer was going on over the weekend and some spraying. Sunday night we received a strong 1/2 inch. Still bone dry below 18". Every year we experience sometime during the growing season where we need good subsoil moisture this year we have none going into planting. Still very cold soil temps at least 2 weeks from planting last year planters where rolling the last week of March.

 

• 4/9 - Western Walsh County, northeast North Dakota: This is the year winter never ended. High today was 21 with a 25-30 mph north wind, wind chill at 15 below at 5pm. This morning the snow was drifting across the road just like mid-January. Tomorrow morning will be below zero temp (hope the wind goes down) Miles and miles of solid snow cover on the fields.

 

• 4/9 - Trempealeau, Wis.: First to the person from Stanton, Neb.: if you need corn you should be happy because the price has dropped and if you don't have any corn to sell what does it matter. And to the person from Hancock, Iowa: if you have been told by a government employee that we will run out of corn I sure hope you are long futures. Oops that would be insider trading.

 

• 4/9 - East central Iowa: We received three quarters of an inch Monday morning. We have the potential of another one to two inches between now and Wednesday. There has been little or no field work done yet. Some isolated application of nh3 and some oats going in just north of the Quad Cities.
  

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• 4/8 - Henry County, Ohio: Wheat topdressing was hit pretty hard this past week in the area. Wheat looks pretty good with warmer temperatures bringing the green up stage along. Fields with more growth show frost burning. Lots of rain predicted for this coming week and it’s just as well to keep someone from doing something they should not be doing as in planting corn. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/8 - Stanton, Neb.: Last year between March 9 till April 4 2012, we only had 2 overnight low temps below 32 degrees. Fast forward a year, from March 9 till April 4 2013, we only had 4 days that it stayed 32 degrees or warmer over night! No planting here for a while! Checked my BINS after the USDA said we had all that corn, I am RIGHT, (they might have miscalculated a bushel or 400 million), still empty, that report DIDN'T add a darn BUSHEL in my BIN!!!!
  

 

• 4/8 - Grant County, Ind.: Farmers just started putting down fertilizer this weekend around here. I have a question for USDA: Why would the United States be getting corn imported to the east coast from Argentina if USDA says that we will have nearly 1 billion bushels left over till new crop corn comes in? Things sure smell like manure to me in Washington!

 

• 4/8 - Coles County, Ill.: We are north of Charleston, Ill. Its dry enough to plant but the ground is still cold. Possible rain in the forecast but nothing has showed up yet. fixed some tile holes that showed up late last spring after planting and they were dry and the ground was just damp at 2 feet down. the main tile lines have a little water in them but nothing like they normally do.
  

  -- Coles County, Ill. (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.)

 

• 4/8 - Mazovia, Poland: Here in Poland is snow on the fields, we already sow spring cereals but there is no possibilities! You will have to give up the cereal in favor of corn. In a word, the tragedy!

 

• 4/8 - Hancock, Iowa: There has got to be insider trading going on between the USDA and some Chicago traders. A relative is a govt. grain inspector and he said the U.S. will absolutely run out of corn before 2013 harvest. But yet they found more bushels to kill the market.
  

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• 4/5 - Berrien County, Mich.: First morning above freezing fields are very dry for this time of year. Feild tiles are dry also need some rain.

 

• 4/5 - Northwestern South Dakota: We are very dry. The area received limited snowfall and there has not been any significant spring moisture as of today. The same statement applies to the southern tier of counties in Southwestern North Dakota. Last season the subsoil moisture in Northwestern SD along with a few timely showers provided a wheat crop for most growers. This year there is virtually no subsoil moisture in Northwest SD. Top soil moisture is needed soon or this area will be as dry as times in the 1950's; 1976 or as in 1980. Pastures like cropland are in dire condition. Dams and ponds are virtually dry holes. I have some chemical fallow which hopefully has enough top soil moisture for the spring wheat crop. Those fields won't survive long. My re-crop acres for wheat are bone-dry. I do not plant to plant any spring wheat on re-crop acres. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/5 - Logan County, Ill.: Bill shows where we are sowing filter strips and waterways with a grain drill rented from Logan Co. SWCD. Using a mixture of seeds: brome grass, alfalfa, rye, orchard grass, and a beefmaster pasture mix. We will be baling it later this summer for hay. Spring planting has begun. Video courtesy of http://farmandranchcountry.com.
  

 

 

• 4/5 - Rapides Parish, La.: In 2012 we had 750 acres soybeans, 410 acres corn. Plan for 2013 is 500 acres soybeans, 210 acres milo and 450 acres corn. Corn is up and milo is in the ground. Rotation is one year soybeans and one year corn or milo. Good Luck and Be Safe!

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• 4/4 - Cavalier County, N.D.: Traveled from 90 mles south me, to the Canadian border, and west about 100 miles in the past 2 days. Not even a patch of bare soil....the snowpack is unbroken for thousands of square miles in eastern ND and up into Manitoba. In addition to already being very late, the forecast for the next 6 days call for high temps in the 20's. I'm guessing any growers with corn in the plan are starting to think about a different crop option.

 

• 4/4 - Asotin County, Wash.: Finished planting spring wheat, moisture is good, soil temperature is on the cool side. Our winter wheat is starting to look good. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/4 - Twitter Updates (#plant13): @GrainsGuru: #plant13 weather update: Rains could slow early U.S. seeding later this week but the 5-6 is drier #corn

  @papaparker17: Extended forecast looks to be drier for southern Illinois, telling me that farmers will be rocking and rolling here shortly! #plant13

  @leewheat: On the verge of starting #plant13, now there's three inches of snow.

  @SSchmidt87: Apparently, there's a quarter of P2088 in the ground in Clay County. Genius or idiot? We'll know in October... #corn #plant13

  @WickedPulling: I asked hubs "What day is today, Wednesday Right?" he says "No it's Thurs." I scream, "Are u freaking kidding me!?!" #daylate$short #Plant13

  @captaincorn: Hopefully going to apply some fertilizer tomorrow. Getting ready for #plant13. Hope #fertilizer prices follow corn prices.

  @farmboy8400: Startin to see the odd field cultivated or land leveled, guys must be thinkin spring grain and sugar beets #plant13

  @JayReiners: @shickshackfarms soil temp Monday am was 35. Last year it was 55. Talking cold and wet for first part of next week. #plant13 is a ways off.

  @latwater1:  Doing some disking this evening! Glad #spring is here and that #plant13 is close!! #farming #agriculture #tillage

  @girl_agronomist: Soil temperature of 42 degrees in Angola IN #INag. Chilly soil, chill the planters. #plant13

  @hayseedmike: Soil temp at 7am. 40. Warmer than I thought it would be. #plant13

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• 4/2 - Buffalo County, Neb.: I raise irrigated wheat. I watered it 3X after planting into soybean stubble. The field was hit by 70mph winds for 2 days as it was emerging. Bean residue drifted over the side hills and smothered areas out. The field is starting to green up now. The stand is not that great, but I will not destroy it because I plan on seeding cattle feed after harvest. Dryland fields planted last fall are completely barren around here. With no subsoil moisture I am not sure what will be done with those fields. If you are getting rain thank your lucky stars. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/2 - Ingham County, Mich.: It is still cold. We will plant corn and soybeans 50/50. The wheat is still dormant, but looks good considering. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/2 - Southeastern Minnesota: The majority of beneficial moisture we had this past winter rapidly melted in about two days’ time. The ground is still froze. You know where the water went. USDA: just another manipulated puppet. Like talking to a known liar.

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• 4/1 - Chicot County, Ark.: Attached is a video of the hail storm we recently experienced and a photo of the damaged wheat crop. In the video you can hear the hail hitting the windows of our home. The wheat field is located in south Chicot County in southeast Arkansas. It looks about like a freshly cut hayfield now. Thank the Good Lord no one was injured that we know of, but everyone in this neck of the woods has roof, window, and siding damage as well as crop damage. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 
  
  
  

  -- Chicot County, Ark. (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.)

 

• 4/1 - Essex County, Ontario: Field work and planting have started on the light ground for potatoes and spring grain. Clover has all been planted in winter wheat. Lots of moisture in the ground for now. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 4/1 - Lawrence County, Ark.: It is wet and cold, and there’s not much rice or corn planted yet. Will be middle of next week at best and more rain predicted this weekend. Corn acres are reducing along with prices fast! Happy Easter!
  

 

• 4/1 - Western Walsh County, northeast North Dakota: On March 29 I was trying to dig my way back to our big cultivator....have about 30 feet left to reach where I think the hitch is.  Then, hopefully, it will melt out rather quickly. We have some variable rate controls to put on the machine, so are anxious to get it dug out.  Snow is so hard one hardly makes a footprint walking on it.  Spent about 4-5 hours with loader and snowblower on a 4450 JD, have at least 3-4 hours left to go. Then the wind and sun can finish the job.  Is it spring yet?
  

  -- Western Walsh County, 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.)

 

• 4/1 - Juneau, Wis.: No bare ground here, two to three ft. drifts everywhere, ground is froze like a rock. Suppose to hit 50 today, first time since Jan.

 

• 4/1 - Stoddard County, Mo.: We will plant corn, beans, wheat, cotton and rice.

 

• 4/1 - East central Iowa: Our ground froze just enough Thursday morning to clean up one pile. Sounds like it may freeze again Tuesday morning. Not a lot going on around here. I think around me, there will be more seeded down with the declining commodity prices and increased hay prices. Happy Easter.
  

 

• 4/1 - Wisconsin: Our friends at the USDA must be pretty smart folks, they can predict the weather. Wish I was that smart.
  

 

• 4/1 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Let’s see well our good ol government did it again. A crop report that is pure B.S. Every farmer out here wants to know how they keep coming up with these bushels. Let’s see what the trade and everybody has to say about this report in July.

 

• 4/1 - Winona County, Minn.: No crop here in the near future. 12" of snow all over the place with 4-5 foot drifts. 43 degrees and sunny today. Close to 50 tomorrow. Last year there was corn in the ground here. I would say we are a month away for sure of field work but mother nature always has a way of surprising us. Wait and see.
  

 

• 4/1 - Southwest North Dakota: Will be seeding in 2 weeks. Wish we get rid of all the USDA reports all they do is kill the markets.

 

• 4/1 - The Palouse, eastern Washington and Idaho: Fall wheat hit hard by frost last week, setting back an already small stand. Spring wheat going in the ground this week and next. Kind of dry in the top foot.

 

• 4/1 - Ripon, Wis.: Our wheat is still dormant. Low areas have some ice where the January thaw made small lakes in the hollows. We still have most wheat covered by a blanket of snow.

 

• 4/1 - Oklahoma: This photo shows Oklahoma State University’s wheat test plots. Concerns about the recent cold snap, but won't know for a couple of days.
  

  -- Oklahoma (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.)

  
  

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Here's a sampling of what some folks are saying: 

• 3/27 - Decatur County, Kan.: Wheat still has not emerged. Thinking maybe next week. Most of our wheat will be planted to milo or cane.

 

• 3/27 - Greeley County, Neb.: 2 irrigated 1/4's of corn and 1 1/4 of dry land beans. 50/50 rotation. Very, Very Dry!

 

• 3/27 - Vernon County, Mo.: Too wet. Don't think anything planted in county.

 

• 3/27 - East central Iowa: The first three pictures from Sunday afternoon. We missed the big storm (1-2 inches). We have low temps in the lower 20's through Thursday morning. Last year we were in the fields at this time. We will be cleaning up the cattle yards one last time while the ground is still froze, and with any luck spring will finally show up. We usually don't start planting until 17-21 of April around here. Still very dry subsoil. The other two photos are our last load, it didn't freeze as hard as it was supposed to.
  

  -- East central Iowa (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.)

 

• 3/27 - Texas: A large part of the Texas winter wheat crop could have been damaged by hard freezes March 24-26, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. "Temperatures in the teens and low 20s appear to have been common in the Panhandle, and in the upper 20s and low 30s in the Blacklands on Sunday night and Monday morning," said Dr. Travis Miller, AgriLife Extension agronomist and Texas A&M University soil and crop sciences associate department head. "These temperatures are sufficiently cold to cause severe injury to wheat in advanced stages of growth." The exact extent of the damage won’t be known for five days to a week or longer, and another hard freeze was expected in the central areas of the state on the night and early morning of March 25-26, Miller said.
  

  Extremely cold weather can damage the vegetative parts of wheat, but symptoms, such as yellowing of tillers, may not appear for a week or more, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agronomist. Wheat can routinely take temperatures down to 5 degrees or so without vegetative damage, but heads are more susceptible to temperatures in the 20s and low 30s. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo.) (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.)

 

• 3/27 - Northwest Saskatchewan: Doesn't look like we will be in our fields anytime soon. We have drifts 12 feet high on the NW side of every bluff. Wouldn't mind sharing some of this white stuff with our friends down south.
  

  -- Northwest Saskatchewan (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.)

 

• 3/27 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: The weather bureau blew it again. They're getting near the point of calling wolf one to many times. Maybe 2" of snow all weekend -- missed us again.

 

• 3/27 - Muscatine, Iowa: Will plant 50-50 rotation, same as always.

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• 3/25 - Richardson County, Neb.: We will be planting less corn than last year due to a lack of subsoil moisture and little surface moisture.

 

• 3/25 - Webster County, Neb.: We've had rain and snow about every 10 days for the last 6 weeks. Top soils are pretty wet, planting won't start as early as last year.

 

• 3/25 - Callaway County, Mo.: We won’t be planting corn for a while here in central Missouri, with 6-10 inches of fresh new white stuff blowin around! And, we have a cold week ahead.
  

  -- Callaway County, Mo. (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.)

 

• 3/25 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Just missed the latest "big" snow/rain event-again. Less than .25 of an inch for the month of March. Pasture conditions are bleak. Many look like golf courses-grazed into the ground. Even with "normal" rainfall for April/May, most would not support any cows until mid-June. There is going to be a large exodus of cows from this area this year. I will probably start irrigation up after Easter to insure that there is moisture to germinate spring crops,...haven't had to do that for years. Good luck to all.

 

• 3/25 - Mississippi: Provided by Mississippi State University’s Tim Walker, Agronomist and Jason Bond, Research/Extension Weed Scientist: The 2013 rice planting season has begun in Mississippi. In addition to the first planting date study my staff planted Thursday, March 14, rumor has it a small amount of rice was planted near Arcola March 15 and 16. Rice was being planted Tuesday (19th) and Wednesday (20th) near Hollandale. The first On-Farm Variety Trial was planted south of Hollandale on Wednesday, March 20th. Based on conversations I have had with growers, more planting will begin Monday, March 25 depending upon how much rainfall we receive over the next few days. Compared to last year, I expect emergence to be slower.
  

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• 3/22 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: Between 1/4 and 1/2 inch of rain today. Wheat is out of dormancy. It's greening up nicely. The wheat south of us in Logan County, Colo. is probably a week to 10 days ahead of local and looks better. They had more snow. Weather Channel says BIG snow Saturday, we'll see? (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 3/22 - Wapello County, Iowa: We have had some decent winter moisture with a lot of it soaking in but we need a lot to get subsoil moisture back to where it should be. Cold weather makes me think we are going to have a more normal start for the year and that means an April 15-20 start. If it doesn't warm up it might be later. We might have to start drying corn again if we have a later start and a cooler summer. A cool summer and just enough rain could still make a respectable crop.

 

• 3/22 - Scottsbluff, Neb.: Conditions here still very dry. Very little spring work done waiting for some moisture because we have 5-6 inches of powder dry soil right now. Looking bleak!!!

 

• 3/22 - Osage County, Kan.: Moisture Jan thru March 1 was 1/2 rainfall and 16 " of snow. We’ve had no runoff and are 22" deficient for the past 12 months.
  

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• 3/19 - Darlington, S.C.: We started planting Corn on 3/20/13.

 

• 3/19 - Rapides Parish, La.: Finished corn 3/18 & today (3/19) we planted our first sweet corn. Tomorrow, we’re going to try to get started with milo and get a burndown application out on some more bean land. First corn planted on 3/6 has emerged.

 

• 3/19 - Nobles County, Minn.: Here in SW Minnesota the moisture patterns have not changed since last spring. The snowfalls continue to go around us. Our fields are bare (no snowcover) and there is zero subsoil moisture. A year ago we were planting potatoes and just starting to think about planting corn. This year we still have two to three feet of frost in the ground. And, they are starting to say it won't warm up to normal temps until the middle of April. Looking like a very late Spring here. And dry!

 

• 3/19 - New York: We have finished top dressing our green-up nitrogen treatment and have frost seeded Red Clover where wanted (blended clover seed with nitrogen and applied together). Wheat crop looks average for this time of season. Still have a dusting of snow as temps have been below average so far. Very few others in area have started top dressing yet. We will monitor the wheat crop as it advances and apply fungicide and additional nitrogen as needed. Weekly scouting and multiple tissue samples. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

 

• 3/19 - McLennan County, Texas: Finished planting corn the 5th of March. Corn is coming up some is already at 3 leaves, wheat looks good and will be heading in a couple of weeks. Milo planting is starting with good moisture we got 2 inches of rain last week. Starting to spray for weeds and will sidedress after that so far so good. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com) 

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• 3/18 - Western Walsh County, northeast North Dakota: Our area getting another 6-8 inches of snow and high winds as I write this. Roads are blocked, the farmyard is knee deep-again. Forecast is for below 0 temps every morning this week. We are looking at field work starting (hopefully) during the 1st week in May.

 

• 3/18 - Manitoba, Canada: It’s going to be a late spring in western Canada. Above normal amount of snow on the ground as well as below normal temperatures. Still anticipating a good thaw but as of today all we are getting is blizzard warnings. Could be an interesting spring.

 

• 3/18 - Lincoln County, Wash.: The weather here is dry and windy. We have received less than 1.5 inches of moisture since the beginning of 2013. Winter wheat came out of dormancy in good shape other than snow mold. We will need some timely rains to have any chance of an above average crop! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 3/18 - Northeast Arkansas: The forecast calls for a cold rain here tonight, with cooler temps and more rain mid-week. This is leading me to think they'll be very little rice and corn planted till the last week of March. We will see. Good luck!
  

 

• 3/18 - Arkansas County, Ark.: Plenty of moisture corn planters are running at full steam ahead before the rain this weekend. The ground temps are right where they need to be. Everyone is planting about 15 percent more corn acres this year in our area.

 

• 3/18 - Noble County, Okla.: Wheat is finally greening back, but there’s no pond water and no pasture growth. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 3/18 - Cedar County, Neb.: All dryland subsoil moisture is behind from 12"-16" in the county. Irrigated ground has some subsoil moisture, but the major storms keep missing us although we did get 1" of rain last week. Forecast for April is cooler and dry. Planting will start around April 15 depending upon soil temp.
  

 

• 3/18 - Woodbury County, Iowa: Had 1 0 to 14 inches of wet snow on Sunday March 10.Be a few days before we go to the field. To the gentleman in Crawford County on the land price you should of told about the other land in Crawford County that brought $5,850, which is more realistic not the $18,025

 

• 3/18 - Kalkaska, Mich.:  Lots of snow and rain this winter. We still have about 2 feet of snow. It’s been a while since we had a winter like this. It looks like it will be mid-April before planting will start. Hope everyone has a great year God bless!

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• 3/14 - Crawford County, Iowa: Great moisture received. 2'' in last week. Most went in ground. Has farmers in great mood. 145 acres of land sold for $18,025 last Saturday at Denison Livestock Auction Co. located in Denison Iowa.
  

 

• 3/14 - Western Walsh County, northeast North Dakota: Seems strange to hear planters are rolling while we have full blown winter yet. Yesterday morning temp was 18 below zero. Not a pound of snow has melted yet. The road ditches are level full of snow-drifting onto the road surface and freezing, causing very icy driving conditions. Looks like a May start around here.

 

• 3/14 - East central Iowa: This is what happens when you have 2 inches of rain on frozen ground. We need subsoil moisture, but all of the rain and snow we’ve been getting is running off. Video courtesy of scotthinch’s YouTube channel.
  
  
   
• 3/14 - Ontario, Ore.: Just started planting onions today. Winter wheat just fertilized and looks good. Could use more water in our reservoirs, but we will take what God gives us. Hope everyone has a successful year and God Bless! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

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• 3/14 - Billings, Mont.: Malt barley is being planted on very dry ground! Some is wet, but not much. The ground is cold, but temps are expected to reach 70 this week. Not much snow or rain around here since I don’t know when 2 years ago! We can’t buy a good wet spring snow anymore!

 

• 3/14 - Buffalo County, Neb.: Despite the forecast of a "major" storm coming through last weekend, we were again missed by the bulk of the moisture. We received maybe a tenth of an inch... Conditions here continue to be excessively dry. With a dry, warm forecast for the next week, the outlook is somewhat bleak. Since I have cows (and want to keep them) my crop mix may have to be altered to provide feed for them. I will probably start pre watering soon in order to insure proper germination for crops. Good luck to all.

 

• 3/14 - Sargent County, southeast North Dakota: Picked up 30 inches of snow since Feb. 7th. Makes it somewhat miserable to get around. Last year at this time we were already in the fields, this year there is 2-3 feet of frost and its cold. Easter is early but there is no way we’ll be in the fields in March. I’d predict it’ll be mid-April. The forecast is for cold temps for another week. Milnor won the state class B basketball title for the first time that was a very pleasant surprise, Go Bison.

 

• 3/14 - Texas: In the Lower Rio Grande Valley, water shortages are shaping up as a crisis not just for farmers but also for entire cities this year, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. In 2009, the area experienced the worst drought in decades, as did much of the state, but this year is shaping up to be much worse for area residents, said Dr. Guy Fipps, AgriLife Extension irrigation engineer, College Station.
  

  Grain sorghum under irrigation in Hidalgo County. Most all crops in the Lower Rio Grande Valley are dependent upon irrigation water, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Rod Santa Ana) (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.)

  
  

 

• 3/14 - Northeast Nebraska: It is still very dry here. We had about 5 inches of snow 2 weeks ago. It melted to .50, then had about .50 this weekend. We still have a long way to get 12 inch so were back to normal. Everyone is taking 85% crop insurance this year, cutting back on fertilizer and planting cheap seed. It is probably going to dry out any way... not looking good

 

• 3/14 - Callaway County, Mo.:  Central Missouri received a nice boost of precipitation over the weekend. About an inch and half of rain fell to melt the 20 inches of snow from the past few weeks. We had runoff for the first time since last spring. The irrigation lakes are still less than half replenished and need more.

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• 3/11 - Muscatine, Iowa:Winter precipitation doesn't count for much. A good deal of it will go down the river until the ground thaws.

 

• 3/11 - Power County, Idaho: Most fall planted wheat is fair to good. Storms have missed us for the most part since December. Grain is greening up and we will start top dressing about mid-March. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 3/11 - Southeast Arkansas: Corn planters rolling here. We have had above normal rainfall through the winter months. Temps could be a little warmer (54) but we take what we get. Good luck to all!!

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• 3/7 - Southeastern Grand Forks County, North Dakota: Finally some measureable snow after a mostly dry winter. The snow cover makes us feel better as we all hate to watch our field blow away. But, we all know with the ground froze, snow melt does very little to ease the dryness. We have enough moisture to get the crop going, but after last year there's no reserve left and going to need some very timely rains

 

• 3/7 - Charlotte County, Fla.: Wild hogs are destroying crops. They captured 10 in one night. Now we have to start all over.

 

• 3/7 - Fayetteville County, Texas: We are planting corn every day. Our moisture is kind of iffy but should come up. Soil seems very cold for Texas this time of year. Hope for rain on Sunday. Started planting corn on Feb 19th. The corn below was planted Feb. 22. Rain always welcome
  

  -- Fayetteville County, Texas (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.)

  
  

 

• 3/7 - Scottsbluff, Neb.: Not any significant moisture all winter. Wheat looking poor and very dry soil conditions for spring fieldwork. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 3/7 - Custer County, Neb.: We are extremely dry. I am 62 and do not remember anything like this. We have about half our crop ground planted to rye and will plant all of the rest to oats. If it does not rain soon we’ll just to try and have feed for our cow herd. Rye that was planted on dryland ground has not even sprouted. Any ideas?

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• 3/5 - East central Iowa:  This picture is of a friend helping get ready for big storm "Saturn," as the weather channel calls it. (Am I the only one that can't believe they are naming snow storms?)  As you can see, he is in a bit of a predicament. No one or equipment was hurt, lifted bucket out with loader from other side. Today (Tuesday) we are in the midst of a snow day. 7-12" expected. We have been getting decent moisture, problem is it almost all runs off(filled the ponds back up). A couple of weeks ago we received 1-2" of rain on top of ground that was thawed 2-4" on top and froze underneath. It caused some rill erosion, which we all hate to see. We are extremely dry underneath. What corn was produced around here is going to town, there have been times that processors have had quick ship bids adding $.10-.20 on top of an already good basis( $.30-.50 over).
  

  -- East central Iowa (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.)

  
  
   
• 3/5 - Western Walsh county, northeast North Dakota: Sure am glad we didn't take the snow blower off the loader tractor!  We are in the middle of an old fashioned two-day snow storm....the kind of storm we loved as kids, but must have driven our mothers crazy. Today is a good day for paperwork, coffee, and watch the wheat and corn markets falling along with the snow.  Our crop plan won't change, about 50% hard red spring wheat. The balance will be oil seeds, and legumes (peas, edible beans, a few soybeans). (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

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• 3/4 - Livingston County, Ill.: I have read many articles indicating soil moisture being replenished east of Mississippi River. People have forgotten what true replenishment is in my opinion. Try this. Take your post hole auger out, auger a hole 40 inches deep, come back in 24 hours, if the water in the hole is not within 6 inches from the surface, your soil is not replenished. Most areas probably wouldn’t have much water at all. We wouldn’t here in Livingston County, Ill.

 

• 3/4 -  Marion County, S.C.: 2012 was considered to be a drought, but for us we were blessed with just a few rains exactly when we needed them. Had good yields on corn, wheat and peanuts but the cotton and soybeans were the best ever. Still been dry this winter but are now just getting good moisture. If we can get in fields in about three weeks we will be off to the races again for another years . Looks like a lot of corn will be planted this year with peanut contract down and we will sure need the good Lords blessings on it because most is dryland. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 3/4 -  Linn County, Iowa: When will we start planting? Our target is next week. Might make it with a little heat.

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• 3/1 - McLennan County, Texas: Started planting corn Monday the 25th. Our nights are still a little cold, but should warm up next week. Planting is going well and plenty of moisture for now. Should finish mid next week hope no late frost this year good luck to all.
  
   
• 3/1 - Stearns County, Minn.: Best corn crop ever seen in 2012, not sure what to plant in 13. There is very little sub soil moisture, but plenty of snow.

 

• 3/1 - Dooly County, Ga.: Some corn is planted and is up in extreme S. Ga. We are closer to the middle of the State and will began planting corn when it dries off. We had 14 inches of rain in the past 3 weeks. Cotton and peanuts are a least 30-40 days away. Corn acres in Ga. are higher than they have been in many years. Infrastructure is our problem in Ga. (no place to put a large crop). Cotton acres will go up in 2013 with peanut acres down because of glut and low price. Soybean and wheat acres are up 10% from 2012 and those are mostly dry land acres from 2012 peanut land. Wheat in our local area is looking great, a little late but in great shape. In Dooly county cotton is King but corn has invaded our kingdom and kicking cotton economic behind. If cotton stays above 81 cents and corn get down to 4 dollars the invasion will be short lived. We have invested on our farm in grain bins and dryers, "long live corn." Corn seed has been harder to come by. We will be careful with this limited resource if we have to replant. I wish everyone of our brothers in the corn growing belt a better year and plenty of rain.  (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)
  

  -- Dooly County, Ga. (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.)

  
  

 

• 3/1 - Decatur, Ind.: Have received adequate moisture since Jan 1st. Tile ditches are running and ponds are full. Soil moisture is comparable to a year ago, and we have been blessed in that regard. March will determine if we go into planting season ahead or behind in soil moisture.

 

• 3/1 - Lincoln County, Mont.:  Most of the snow has melted off the hay fields, pesky elk fighting over the green stems coming up. Alfalfa fields down by river starting to green up nicely.
  
   
• 3/1 - Yuma, Colo.: Finally a snow event last week, was great, it is still incredibly dry here. Will need regular rain for a wheat crop. Stand is good but little sub-moisture. Pastures not in good shape either. Pray for rain. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

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• 2/27 - Dawson County, Mont.: Due to 2012 summer drought and continued dryness and heat in early fall, HRW was seeded late in less than ideal conditions. A lot of wheat did not even come up last fall. With minimal winter snow and zero subsoil moisture, wheat crops will need ideal growing conditions to make an average crop. However, according to drought maps we are supposedly not in drought, which is far from the truth. Due to weakness in wheat prices and continuing drought, a growing number of producers are looking at planting pulse crops in place of spring wheat. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)
  
   
• 2/27 - Essex County, Ontario, Canada: Wet snow and rain have taken frost out of the ground. Wanted to start harvesting miscanthus but those plans are shot until spring or another real cold snap. Overseeding wheat with clover will start when it dries up. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

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• 2/26 - Moniteau County, Mo.: Winter wheat looks good. Even with the snow we still need 9-10 inches of rain for the subsoil. Water still is not running out of the drain tile.
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• 2/26 -  Cheyenne County, Neb.: Two storms last week. Nothing as wild as Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, but nice moisture just the same. When all the snow melts, should be about an inch. Most will soak in as the ground is not frozen. No wind so the moisture is fairly uniform for a change.

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• 2/25 - Macon County, Ill.: The two farmers from Kansas need a better way to argue. Share phone numbers and discuss your farming practices that way.The next time you feel the need to comment here just tell us your wheat looks bad and stop there.
  
   
• 2/25 - Manitoba, Canada: To the lucky farmer from Rochester, Minn.: Better check your dream monitor.

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• 2/24 - Southeast Minnesota: Not much as far as precipitation this winter in our area. Lots of wind erosion as Old School Farming practices (turn everything black) has returned with his friend named Greed. Lots of grain moved this past rally. Bins being emptied abnormally early in our area too, and we had a good crop. Cannot wait to see how this market and the world reacts when the reality hits.
   

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• 2/23 - Louisiana delta: Completed harvest on 562 acres. Averaged 233.4 bus/acre on dry land. Best corn crop ever on this farm. Corn in this area looks to be well above average.
   

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• 2/22 - Glacier County, Mont.: Some winter wheat seeded in our area that seems to be doing well. We never plant much. Went to a grower meeting yesterday on pulse crops. Looks like a lot of interest in peas, lentils and canola, plus some malt barley. Delivery time is the big hang-up (buyers call). We keep hearing of the abundant supplies of wheat in the world, so the interest in wheat simply isn't there due to USDA projections of a bumper crop, poor basis and usually steep discount schedules. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)
  
   
• 2/22 - Kearny County, Kan.: I'm following up on the Wallace County farmer again. That's why I said we are minnimum till. We have good cover left. Last year, we had a 45 bu. average on our farm on wheat. We don't do the thirds farming like everybody else. Those guys last year only cut in the 20s or worse on wheat. They then turned around and didn't have a milo crop again. I know that seed has gotten better since the thirties and farming practices are better, but if you read history, out here the best way to raise a crop and protect our soil was to go to a wheat-summer fallow rotation out here. Especially when in a drought. You also admitted to what I was trying to say and that is that no-till is not the only answer. When we do plant milo we no-till it, but for wheat we've found that one or two opertions with a sweep plow depending on the year ensures us a better chance of getting a better stand of wheat than the no-till guys. When they destroy all their cover with their no-till drills and get no wheat up, they then begin to blow my wheat out that we got up! Sometimes I think you have to do what works for you and quit worring about everybody else. Sometimes you have to walk in their shoes sometimes to know the whole story. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

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• 2/21 - Buffalo County, Neb.: We are finally getting a widespread moisture event. We have received about 10" of snow in the last 30 hours. The temperature is in the mid-teens so I hope that there is a half-inch of moisture when it melts. If that is the case, this snowfall will represent the largest moisture event in the last 8 months. The drought here continues unabated.
  
   
• 2/21 - Dublin, Ga.: Middle Georgia is very wet.  We have had around 10 in of rain in the last 10 days.  The water is draining well and should be drying up over the next couple of weeks. 
  
   
• 2/21 - Western Wisconsin: It is cold this week. We’ll be thinking about maple trees soon. Last year we had 25% of average rain. More moisture would be good.
  
   
• 2/21 - Wallace County, Kan.:  I am following up the reply comments from the Kearny County farmer's reply to my past comments. No no-till will NOT forever prevent soil erosion from wind or water. However I would say that maintaining as much cover as can be grown with the moisture God gives will help. Of course that cover will not last forever without replacing it. Yes no-till will get compacted on the top without rain. In a drought cycle like we are currently in NOTHING works. I'm only saying that over time with proper cover maintenance and adequate (not even average) rainfall, no-till protects the soil better than traditional farming practices. Kearny County farmer writes that neighboring no-till farmers have had soil erosion, too. Without knowing there farming rotation history I can't comment on his situation. I am happy to say that the ground I farm is well protected from wind at this time. I did not plant wheat last fall as I felt its survival, if could even germinate, was not optimal. Neighboring traditional, sweeps and pickers) farmers are in the situation now that their soil is moving on windy days and they don't have any cover to help the situation. I assert that at this time if they had practiced no-till they would have a better situation. No-till is not a panacea and will not fix all problems in a drought, but it gives options that aren't there in this situation. The farmer that owns the land in my pictures says his intention is to summer fallow again with the intention of planting wheat again in fall '13. As we all know weeds seem to grow even without rain my concern is that if he doesn't change his practices during the summer he will be in at least the same situation next fall. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 2/21 - Kearny County, Kan.:  To the gentleman in Wallace County, KS: Come on down to SW Kansas and I'll show you the same dirt piles coming from no-till farming. We have piles like that in the last 5 years and it is all coming from no-till. We farm what I call minimum till. The no-till guys never get their wheat up because their ground is hard and dry like concrete. We have always got our wheat up and harvested a crop as long as we don't get blown out by our neighbors. It is really dry here right now. Last year we had only 41% of normal. I wish this drought was over, but in reading all the history of droughts out here it might just be starting! We are also getting chemical resistant weeds from our no-till neighbors, but I'll save that for another day. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 2/21 - Jackson County, Okla.: Weather has been spotty. Our early wheat in no till fair to good. The rest of wheat is still coming up. We have a  very wide range of emergence. Doesn’t not look good for wheat prospects, but you know wheat, it has to be lost 9 times before it's made. Soil water profile is poor to none. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 2/21 - Central Nebraska: With a few warmer days this week, one farmer in central Nebraska took to the field to do some stalk shredding. Temperatures over the next two weeks are expected to vary considerably with two winter storms on the horizon.
  

  -- Central Nebraska, Photo by Gary Zoubek (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.)

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• 2/19 - Buena Vista County, northwest Iowa:  We have had a little moisture this winter, but very little. There is no sub soil moisture at all versus a year ago, might be enough to germinate a crop this spring but that’s about it, we are well over 10 inches under the normal.  It’s so dry we just had to drill a new well on our farm, old one went dry.  Well driller said he can’t keep up, over 40 to drill on his schedule by spring. We are not going to change our rotation any for 2013, still at 50-50 corn soybean rotation no matter what markets do. Our 2012 corn was better than we expected but still below the norm, beans were not as good as we expected, nothing to brag about. From Iowa Bob.

 

• 2/19 - North Carolina: Starting to combine corn, we were running about 160 bushels per acre. And after we combined the soybeans, we were running about 56 bushels per acre.

 

• 2/19 - Olmsted County, east of Rochester, Minn.: This is me harvesting 80 bushels soybeans. We also harvested 260 bushel dry corn. We were, and are dry but 2012 was our best crop ever. Can we do a repeat?
  

  -- Olmsted County, east of Rochester, Minn. (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.)

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• 2/15 - Kearny County, Kan.: I'm commenting on the Wallace County farmer comments. If he wants to come down to SW Kansas, I'll show him the same dirt piles coming from no-till farming. We farm what I call minimum till. We have some neighbors farming no-till now for over 15 years now and in the last 5 years we get dirt blown onto us from them. Their soil gets so hard and tight that they cannot get their wheat up. N We get our wheat up! Oh by the way last year we received 41% of our annual rainfall and it is still dry now! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 2/15 - Sevier County, Tenn.: Primarily a forage producing county, what started out as a dry fall has turned into a wet winter with over 12 inches of rain in January alone. Not complaining though, especially with the way the folks in the Corn Belt have suffered.

 

• 2/15 - Hancock County, Ill.: We lateral tilled 80 acres after the 2-inch rain at the end of January. The tile is running. We were excited.

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• 2/13 - Madison County, Ind.: Soil is well supplied with moisture and tile ditches are running. There is occasional ponding after rains.

 

• 2/13 - Renville, Minn.: Corn and soybean yields were excellent. Caught some timely rains that made the crop. Test weight on corn was excellent. Going into this year with little to no sub moisture.

 

• 2/13 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: Snow storm?? 1-3" with some decent wind. Mostly blew off the wheat. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

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• 2/11 - Carroll/Ogle counties, Illinois:  Sold the rest of the 2012-2013 bean crop and it yielded 71.6 bu/acre on 114 acres. Caught a number of spotty rains. No insurance payout on any crops. Corn was 90 some percent of normal according to government bin measures. Finishing cattle are eating the corn up which really looks to be a losing enterprise again. Wish I had those $12 bean contracts back from last spring but sold some $15 beans this fall and averaged $14.26 for the year. The government price projection was right on for me. Rained Sunday but the ground is frozen and all the water ran off into the creaks. Creaks were up significantly. Subsoil is very dry. The Lord blessed us with prices we may only dream about for a number of years to come. A 154 acre farm sold, at auction, for $14,440 per acre last week. Heroes or fools, only the good Lord knows!
  
   
• 2/11 - Buffalo County, Neb.:  One year ago today we had a full moisture profile, today we have nothing, even on the irrigated. I get a kick out of Gulke and all the others on how we don’t need that big of a crop because demand has slowed down. It will be interesting to see how many wells go dry this year, they all said you can’t drain the Ogallala but it’s already happening. You can’t come out of a drought of this size in one year.
  
  
   
• 2/11 - Wallace County, Kan.: A couple of pictures showing exactly what our situation is in SW Wallace County KS. I'm trying to avoid this by no-till farming and maintaining as much cover on the land as possible. It took centuries to get the topsoil we have and it takes only one day to lose it and those that are still farming with the traditional tillage methods are seeing this result. The wheat stubble is about 12-15" tall and it is filled with topsoil from the neighboring field. So sad. Is this good stewardship? What a disgrace. February and March are normally our windiest months. God help us and pray for rain, it may only be starting. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)
  

  -- Wallace 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.)

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• 2/8 - Eastern Klickitat County, Wash.: We had a long dry fall this last year. We first started to see some moisture about November and had some decent precip through December. However, now all of the snow is melted and we haven't had any measurable precipitation in over a month. Our soil probes indicate moisture only down 24 inches. The drought map may not show it, but a large part of Eastern Washington State is very dry with no relief on the horizon any time soon.
   

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• 2/7 - Jackson County, Minn.: Good crops last year, but very dry. No sub soil moisture. Will take ideal conditions to get an average to good crop this fall.
   

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• 2/6 - Winnebago County, Iowa: We are still very dry here. No late fall rains and very little snow. The only way it would seem to me to get enough rain to start the 2013 crop is a really wet spring, probably so wet that we can't get the crop in. I don't think we have enough subsoil to start the crop but I hope I'm wrong!! Almost all piles are gone in this area and my bins are empty also, which looks like the norm in this area, too.

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• 2/5 - Atchison County, Mo.: Drainage ditches are dry, some of which I have never seen dry in 30 years.

 

• 2/5 - Elkton, S.D.: Fields are almost black. We recieved about a foot of snow in December, maybe a couple inches since. One day we had freezing rain, very little moisture, evaporated before reaching the ground, still made roads a mess. Our corn in 2012 was pretty good,140-180 dryland, 230 irrigated. The beans on poor land made 8 bpa. Some here had awesome beans and very poor corn. No wheat this year as corn has such a premium, and insurance can cover a profit with corn. $400 input costs still make me nervous! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)
  
   
• 2/5 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: I am hearing pivot irrigated corn acres will be down due to the three year water restrition usage limitation. More irrigated millet will be planted because it requires alot less water. (18" corn or more, 5-7" for millet)
  
   
• 2/5 - Sauk County, Wis.:  We just had about 1.5 inches of rain a few days ago. Most ran off. Now temps back below 0 again with on an off snow. Areas of frost down to 12 inches or more. Once you dig down below frost the ground is dry as a bone. We need slow steady rains this spring if we want to slowly more out of the drought.  Plus more snow with a slow warm up.
   
• 2/5 - Seneca County, Ohio:  Our soils are saturated and we have lots of standing water around. We have been that way since early September. Just about the time we start to dry out another weather system moves in and dumps rain on us.
   
• 2/5 - Winnebago County, Ill.:  There were respectable yields, we averaged 156 on corn , but I can tell you that was on bean ground and the trucks are idle now and processors are asking for march deliveries NOW! We sold everything after a few contracts for 7.60 Many farmers were oversold because lack of knowledge on crop insurance. Ya gotta take the (HARVEST OPTION) We had 2.5 inches of rain followed by 2 inches of snow. TNT FARMS
  
   
• 2/5 - Northwest Saskatchewan:  What a difference a year makes. We had absolutely no moisture one year ago. Since then we had over 26 inches of rain and now snow. More than the last 3 years combined. Hang in there your turn will come.
  

  -- Northwest Saskatchewan (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.)

  
  
   
• 2/5 - Calloway County, Ky.:  Tucker Farms: We have about an inch of snow early Thursday night. After the long persistent drought we've had adequate amounts of rain through the past few weeks. Still behind a few inches but were about to break the 2012 Drought. We are very pleased with the amount of rain we've had lately. And the wheat crop looking very good so far. That said look forward to the 2013 crop season. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)
  

  -- Calloway County, Ky. (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.)

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• 2/1 - Cheyenne County, Neb.:  End of January. No decent moisture since October. Wheat will emerge from No subsoil moisture to speak of. Top 6 to 12 in. has some moisture, enough to get started. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 2/1 - York County, Neb.:   Lots of irrigated corn 200 bpa. Dryland very poor. Lots of bins empty due to dry corn at harvest that went direct to town. Ethanol plants closing and cattle feeders taking a blood bath to the price of corn.

 

• 2/1 - Fillmore County, Neb.: Very dry. The 2 main snow events of this winter add up to about 8 inches. Not a great start to 2013. If not for irrigation, we would not have raised a bumper crop in 2012. Lots of corn sold at harvest and those with corn in bins waiting till the price climbs even more.

 

• 2/1 - Dakota County, Neb.: Lost 2/3 of the corn and the upper 1/3 of the soybeans in 2012. Soil is extremely dry!

 

• 2/1 - Chester County, Tenn.:  Wheat is good to excellent. Early split ammonia application completed. Seven inches of rain followed by an ice storm recently. Super hot day Tuesday caused severe weather last night. Major damage at east end of county from very high wind. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 2/1 - Lawrence County, Ark.:  Wheat looks ok, not much of it planted this year. 2" of rain in last 24 hrs rainfall is about average for this year. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

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• 1/30 - Coles County, Ill.: I normally have 87,000 bu. of corn and soybeans stored on the farm in Jan., but I have none this year. This is common because very few farmers stored anything this year or they had very little to store. We are just seeing some water running from the field tiles. We had a heavy rain jan 30th but the ground was still frooze below so it is running off and ponding.You do not benefit as much from a 1.5" rain when it is only thawed the top 2 inches.
  
   
• 1/30 - Huntingdon County, Pa.: I dug a 4 foot deep test hole in a wheat stubble field on 1-27-2013 to see how deep the radish roots were. The ground had plenty of moisture and the roots were down over 3 feet. The ground was froze about 8 inches down and there were lots of earthworms moving below the frozen layer.
  
   
• 1/30 - Nueces County, Texas: Mid February is planting time for corn and sorghum. Dry, dry and even drier. No underground moisture at all. No rain in sight according to weather bureau. We need 10 to 12 inches just to get started but not all at once. Chances of that are slim to none.
  
   
• 1/30 - Delaware County, Ind.: Normally mud this time of year but now digging brush out and dirt falls right off ground has not froze hard enough to stop us.Today 60 and rain but we need a lot more no snow about 6 inches all winter some has been stoled out of field if this is what the rest of year will be it truly live up to be 20(13) good luck and god speed.
  
   
• 1/30 - East Central Iowa: Gotta love Iowa weather. Sunday night through Monday night we received between 1-2" of rain with isolated hail (Sunday night). Problem is that most of it ran off because the ground was frozen 2-3" down. Temps hit 58 degrees yesterday and by Thursday morning lows will be around 0 and –10 degrees by Friday morning. Today we are supposed to pick up 4-7" snow, which will cover up the mud underneath. Not complaining, just stating the facts. Basis on corn has once again narrowed around here to +.33 over the futures. Contrary to the government report, a lot of bins are empty around here and haven’t magically refilled themselves like they think they did! 

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• 1/29 - Benton County, Mo.: We finally received some measurable rain 2-3" since last April. Wheat here was really needing it. No grain left in the bin in this area and never was most crops here were toasted by mid July. Thank the lord and good luck.
   
• 1/29 - Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada:  -21 in Lethbridge, cold and snowy today. Probably a normal winter around here, maybe a little warmer than usual. To answer the question to the Manitoba farmer. If the canola crushers need the canola today, they will pay whatever it takes to buy it, meaning basis can move very high for a while. Yes they can take delivery of the futures but the soonest they can stand for delivery is off the March futures which is still better than a month away. Also there are other costs associated with taking delivery of futures, location, cash requirements, etc.
   
• 1/29 - Snyder County, Pa.: Corn 80 to145 bu. avg.105. Beans 50 to75. Avg 61.
   
• 1/29 - Atoka County, Okla.: Extremely dry. Irrigation ponds are as low as they have ever been. Usually they fill by February. May not get to pump any water this year.
   
• 1/29 - Grundy County, Mo.: It's been misting the last couple of days...virtually no moisture this fall/winter. Am praying for rain/snow!

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• 1/28 - Grant County, Wash.: Here in the N.W. Columbia Basin mild, mild, mild, little to no snow cover. Lakes are all frozen. I plan on planting my same DNS rotation under irrigation. Main crop fresh market sweet corn.
  
  
• 1/28 - Buena Vista County, Iowa: Corn 148, beans 49. Most bins are empty. The crops used every drop of rain to do what they did! No submoisture at all. 2013 could be a tough one!
   
• 1/28 - Platte County, Neb.: Very dry here, only about 4" snow all winter and that is long gone. Been foggy off and on so hopfully 90 day fog days come back with GOOD MEASURABLE MOISTURE. Had one the other day and it flurried.
   
• 1/28 - Clay, Ind.: Our county and surrounding counties averaged less than 50 bu. on corn non-irrigated. Soybeans had a wide range of yield depending time of planting. Early planted beans averaged 38-40, but 10-15 bu. popped out prior to harvest. Later planted beans yield between 40-45 bu. Double crop beans yielded a big zero. Overall bean yields for our area was 30 bu. average.
   

• 1/28 - Dickinson County, Iowa: It’s so dry in northwest Iowa the dirt is blowing onto the roads from a slough that went dry due to lack of rain!

 

• 1/28 - Ogle County, Ill.: Our farm missed the summer rains by a quarter to one half mile. Our yields were 100 bushel but excellent quality. A September rain kicked the beans to a 60 bushel yield. We have missed the rains this winter also. Extremely dry! We will increase our bean planting this spring 20% due to the dry conditions.

 

• 1/28 - Power County, Idaho: 2012 was exceptionally hot and very dry. Our fall wheat was mostly planted into dust and received rain the latter part of November and December. Wheat will be very small and will need a little extra moisture and moderate temperatures. There is little or no 2012 crop left in bins. USDA reports seem to be bogus and they really DON'T know for a fact what crops are still in the bins

 

• 1/28 - Manitoba, Canada: Cold and windy in sunny Manitoba. Temp -30 and windy with average amount of snow. Keeps you busy blowing snow. I have a question. Can anybody tell me why elevators are paying above the futures for corn and canola if they can simply buy a futures contract and take delivery?

 

• 1/28 - Ransom County, southeast North Dakota: Very little snow here but lots of cold and wind. Winter wheat is in trouble as soil temps are 10-15 degrees below last year’s levels. I question whether USDA has a clue, all the bean piles have been gone for weeks and the corn piles are almost gone. A friend of mine recently traveled across South America and said the crops in northern Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay were very drought stressed. The temp in Ascunsion, Paraguay was 100 degrees F the day they went through. Is it really a free market if you’re getting misinformation?

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• 1/24 - Hancock, Iowa: The old timers say they have never seen it this dry. The corn roots had to go 5 to 6 feet down to find moisture. We have had virtually no rain or snow since harvest. It scares me how much money I have stuck into pre-paid inputs. Just have to remember it's all in God's hands.

 

• 1/24 - Des Moines County, Iowa: We’ve had a very warm January, no rain or snow for months. It is, dry! dry! dry! All bins are empty. This weather situation isn’t looking good. I don’t believe the USDA report. Why don’t they just tell the truth? There will be no corn come June.

 

• 1/24 - East central Iowa: This message goes out to Mr. Australia…yes USDA and just about every part of our government is a joke! They are just trying to keep up the paper shuffling game going so that they can have a job! Way too many people who are out of touch with the real world are trying to run the whole world.

 

• 1/24 - Livingston County, Ill.: In the last USDA report, I noticed they claim we have 4.6 billion bu. corn stored on farms. That would be almost half of what they claim we grew. These reports become more ridiculous each time. This was a clever way to increase production for now, but all of us farmers know there isn't hardly any corn on the farm, and 90% of what is on the farm is held for feed. I'd say there is approx. 1.5 billion bu. max on the farm. That means USDA is off approx. 2.5 billion. This correction would then put the national average at approximately 90 bu. per acre. Most people all agree 123 bu. national average is ridiculous given the severity of drought.

 

• 1/24 - Rapides Parish, La.: We’ve had 20-25 inches rain at headquarters since Christmas Eve. The drought here is over. Hope to start burndown by the weekend on our corn land. Good luck to everyone and be safe. God Bless!

 

• 1/24 - Alexandria, Minn.: Crops were ok here. 40 bu beans and 165 bu corn. Winter has been very average. 12 inches of snow and some rain at times. Hoping for spring rains to help recharge sub soil moisture. 

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• 1/21 - Union County, Ore.: First time we have reach a temperature above freezing in ten days. Winter wheat frost burned down to bare ground. Not looking good. Summary: Dry and cold. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 1/21 - Buffalo County, Neb.: We have received about 2" of moisture here in the last 7 months...the drought of 2012 continues unabated. What snow that we have had has pretty much melted. If there is a good side to this dry weather, it is that my cows grazing on corn stalks have not had to be fed any supplemental feed. The flip side to that is that there will be no grass next spring. It is hard to get excited about pricing 2013 crops when you don't know what the moisture situation will be by April. Good luck to all!

 

• 1/21 - Australia, Queensland: We are now breaking records of dry here now. Our summer crop window has shut, with nowhere even close to enough rain to think about planting sorghum. There is very little grain on farm here either. We didn't have the wheat we thought we would. Our own feedlot will consume what we have left. By what I’ve been reading in your comments in the US, it is going to be hard for the USDA to find a few million tons in a shed that they forgot about. They usually do it though. I just want to know what US growers think of the USDA, are they a joke? (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 1/21 - Shiawassee County, Mich.: Very dry here we are drier now then last year at this time !our farm pond is down 5 ft. and no snow to melt come spring if we don’t get h2o we will have it bad from the get>go this spring !

 

• 1/21 - Butler County, Neb.: Been way too warm for January 40's 50s is a very bad sign. I hope Feb is cold and snowy that might get my hopes up for chance of a somewhat normal year for 2013.

 

• 1/21 - Sangamon County, Ill.: Grain stored in bins is very little to none! $8.00 plus corn this fall had farmers selling grain out of the field!

• 1/21 - Matt, South Australia: Pirsa (Primary industries and regions South Australia) has lifted estimate of the South Australian crop by 250,000tn.

 

• 1/21 - Grant County, Ind.: Corn was off here about 40 to 50 bushel per acre, beans were above normal. It is wet here now. I am not filling out the ag census form. When they call me I am going to tell them they don’t get any information from me till we farmers get a farm bill! When they in Washington do their job then I will do mine.

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• 1/15 - McLennan County, Texas: Well our erratic weather continues we received 5 plus inches of rain this last weekend, more than the last 4 months total. The wheat that was still not up is emerging and now we will be able to start planting corn on time. Good luck to all. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 1/15 - Lancaster County, Neb.: Still dry with a little moisture in the top foot from 1ft to 6ft not any moisture. We will need some terrific rain events this spring to recharge subsoil, one of those events were you get 1/4 to 1/2 inch every day for 2 weeks (like that ever happens?) Bins have some corn and beans in them but our crop was half of normal last year. I’m busy with book work, meetings, cleaning up an old farmstead, shop work (planter just about ready to go for spring.)

• 1/15 - Palo Alto County, Iowa: First year I can recall without any ice in the drainage ditches in the area. We have had a little snow and maybe a tenth of an inch of rain a few days ago. Never gone into spring as dry as we are right now. If this is a sign of what’s to come this next growing season id be crazy to sell the remainder of the 2012 crop and even consider selling for 2013. Lots of new irrigation equipment being put up this winter even in areas where on a normal year it’s not necessary. In the corner of one farm its usually a wet hole and across the fence an irrigator is going up....maybe he knows something I don’t.

 

• 1/15 - Henry County, Ohio: Three plus inches of rain in the past week should help recharge the subsoil.

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• 1/14 - Eastern Iowa: Almost all of the 8-12" of snow is gone here. It along with about of 1/2 inch of rain soaked in because of the lack of frost under the snow. Yesterday and today’s morning lows were in the single digits so it is safe to say the ground is frozen for now. To the comment from South Australia…you have to remember that you are talking about the U.S GOVERNMENT. I think they are trying to cover up the fact that feed grain supplies are very low to keep the panic from starting so early in the year. Only a few lucky farmers here had normal crops in 2012. In my immediate area a lot of bins are just about empty. All one has to do is look at basis levels (+.30 to .40 over the futures). We too are very low in sub-soil moisture.

 

• 1/14 - Livingston County, Ill.: The only way our markets can properly ration the corn supply is to make sure they have accurate information. USDA needs to stop manipulating the numbers. It seems their objective is to make sure it appears that we don't drop below a 5% stocks to use ratio. If the truth was made known early enough, the markets could ration the corn supply. It's 9 months till next harvest, and there is no way in my opinion that we have enough corn to make it that long. Not even close.

 

• 1/14 - Western Walsh County, northeast North Dakota: 2013 crop plan is about done.  My son and I work on this in November, and don't make too many changes after we start ordering seed.  About 50% will be cereal grains (wheat, a little corn, a little barley-maybe) 25% legumes (peas, edible beans, and a few soybeans, 25% oil crops (sunflower, canola).  Our area got about 6" of moisture during October. As a result, very little fall applied fertilizer got on.....spring will be really busy! (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 1/14 - Cheyenne County, Neb.: 3 below F at the present time. Maybe 1.5 in. snow. It blew a lot. Not enough moisture to do any good. Wheat is in dormancy, some is still not emerged. Looks like an interesting spring on the horizon. Millet prices 35-40 per cwt, so very little is moving. I think the farmers cleaned the bins last year and the drought and lack of acres has totally dried up the pipeline. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 1/14 - Jasper County, Ind.: Crops were OK in 2012. The dang census form looks excruciating—it is $500 fine for filling out wrong, is $100 fine for not filling out. I hope is expansible, as am going to pay the $100 fine rather then fill out-much quicker and cheaper. Am not eligible for payments anyhow and seeing how they don't care to even do a farm bill I think more should just look at paying the $100 fine. Ever play cards and show your cards before betting?

 

• 1/14 - Billings, Mont.: To sum things up here: DRY!!! No snow cover, some in mountains but not much. It is too warm for ski runs to even make snow at some ski resorts. So what is in store for us this spring? Same as last year? I don’t know but it probably won’t be good. I may plant short season crops: barley or wheat, so I won’t run out of irrigation water. It is too risky to plant corn, beets or dry beans, if stays dry. We will run out of water by July!!! Or, we could be all wrong and have bumper crop like the Chicago Board of Trade and USDA thinks!! We should have higher prices than we do now, but what do I know? (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

• 1/14 - Plymouth County, Iowa: Sub-soil moisture here is low to none. Creek beds that are 6 to 8 ft. deep are bone dry.

 

• 1/14 - Bloomington, Ind.: As of Wednesday, Chicago has a new weather record: 320 days without at least an inch of snowfall. That breaks a 72-year-old record set in 1939-1940. Sunday's dusting pushed the city's snow total to 1.3 inches for the entire season, a rarity for a city that saw its largest snowfall ever just two winters ago This may have some ominous implications....

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• 1/9 - Nuckolls County, Neb.: Most grain was sold out of the field this last fall as prices were better than any time in the past. Very little grain stored on farm yet!

 

• 1/9 - Faribault County, Minn.: We are still really dry here no rain or snow. We started hauling beans in last week. It seems like they disappeared in the bin – test weights down to 55 on beans?

 

• 1/9 - Woodbury County, Iowa: Due to the drought, all the crops stored in my bins are sold. I usually pre-sell half of the grain before harvest. The drought cut the crop in half so everything stored is already sold.

 

• 1/9 - Trempealeau, Wis.: If the Mississippi level any is an indicator of potential yield with average moisture, certainly areas that depend on subsoil moisture to get average crop will suffer. It seems to me that we will need an inordinate amount of moisture to compensate to get yield up to average, but what is average?

 

• 1/9 - Livingston County, Ill.: Very little on farm stored corn in Midwest. Most areas had aflatoxin and crop insurance companies won’t pay aflatoxin claims if it goes into storage clean and comes out infested. Therefore most farmers never took this risk. It went straight to town. Most corn in our area made less than 50.

 

• 1/9 - Wayne, Neb.: 2012 crops soybeans averaged 27 b/a - normal crop 45-50 b/a. Corn averaged 35 b/a - normal crop 150 + b/a.

• 1/9 - Central Illinois: The drought of 2012 is far from over. I would guess that 90% of the bread basket is powder dry 20 feet deep, based on what hi-hoe operators are saying. The Illinois and Mississippi rivers are at all-time lows. We are in a very serious situation. Very few tiles are running, and 95% of small streams and rivers are all but dried up. The drought of 2012 is simply hiding quietly below the surface of the entire Midwest.

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• 1/8 - Northwest Kansas: Can't tell you how my wheat looks yet, because it is not up yet. I have one field that has a little wheat up the rest will be destroyed this spring. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 1/8 - South Australia: In Australia we keep hearing of the amount of grain stored on farm unsold in the US despite the drought. Can anyone give a definitive answer? Have an answer? Share it.)

 

• 1/8 - Cavalier County, N.D.: I've been working on the crop mix for a couple months and if there aren't any major market shifts it will be: half wheat, 15% canola, 15% pinto, and some barley, sunflowers, soys and corn. The fields are all white now and we're sitting ok for moisture. Hopefully with a normal spring we can be rolling in late April.

• 1/8 - Ottawa, Kan.: Very dry. As an older man said, "It takes longer to get dry than to get wet."

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• 1/2 - Chester County, Tenn.: Winter wheat looks very good to excellent. Several good rains in December raising moisture levels to very good temps below normal. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 1/2 - Northeast Oklahoma: The wheat looks great. We have had just enough rain to keep it going. The ponds are lower now than in September. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

 

• 12/27 - East central Iowa: Here’s an overview of farming in eastern Iowa. Video courtesy of scotthinch’s YouTube channel.
  

• 1/2 - Winona County, Minn.: My beans averaged 63 bpa with one weigh-wagon check coming in at 80 bpa. My corn averaged 184, which was average for our area. (Read more wheat-related comments at AgWeb's www.VirtualWheatTour.com)

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