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Crops range from “beautiful” to “really ugly” in southeast Minnesota

Crop conditions are all over the board in southeastern Minnesota.

Gail Donkers farms near Faribault and tells Brownfield it’s been a very wet growing season.

“We just have a really uneven crop this year I would say. We have a few beautiful fields, I’m not going to lie, but we also have some really ugly fields out there.”

She says local drainage ditches might be a factor.

“Those have just been really, really full, so you can literally see where the tile lines are. There are like big ‘U’s in between the tile lines in the fields and stuff like that, you can literally see where the tile lines are draining away the excess fluids.”

Donkers says harvest could be a challenge as corn and soybeans mature at different rates.