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Crop development behind despite hot week in Minnesota
Crop development continues to lag in Minnesota despite a week of hot temperatures.
USDA’s latest crop update says corn silking is 81 percent, eight days behind last year and five days off the five-year average. Fifty-eight percent of the crop is rated in good to excellent condition.
Soybeans are 83 percent blooming, compared to 92 percent normally.
The condition rating did improve to 63 percent good to excellent.
Oats are 34 percent harvested, barley harvest is six percent complete, and spring wheat harvest is at three percent.
The potato harvest is just underway, sugarbeets are called 80 percent good to excellent, and the second cutting of alfalfa is nearly 80 percent done.
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