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Crop watcher: Most producers could use a good shot of rain anytime
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| Jim Willers |
BEAVER CREEK, Minn. - The wet spring producers experienced this year is becoming a distant memory in the Beaver Creek, Minn., area.
Minnesota crop watcher Jim Willers says he received only a tenth of an inch of rain in the last three weeks. Some crops are beginning to show signs of stress.
“Crops on light soil are showing signs of stress,” he said. “Corn is about shoulder high and beans are about 15-18 inches tall.”
Producers in southwest Minnesota have been busy cutting road ditches, waterways and the second cutting of alfalfa.
“All the hay is yielding well due to the earlier rainfall,” Willers said.
The small amount of oats grown in the Beaver Creek area is about as tall as Willers has ever seen.
Willers used a pre-emerge herbicide on his soybeans. He is finishing up his one time Roundup spraying. Producers doing the two time Roundup program are starting their second pass.
“We have been able to spray and control weeds in a timely manner and have not had any insect problem yet,” Willers said.
Willers will be busy the next couple of weeks spoiling his grandson and entertaining his daughter and son-in-law.
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