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Too wet and too dry, all on the same farm

Some fields are too wet, others are too dry.  In southeastern South Dakota,
Lewis Bainbridge finished corn planting a week ago, later than he would have liked, but “we’re still ok,” he told Brownfield Ag News Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Bainbridge has a quarter-section he plans to put into soybeans, but that particular ground is too wet to work.

“There’s still water running out of that field,” said Bainbridge, who is chairman of the United Soybean Board.  “Hopefully by the end of the week, here, we’ll be able to get that field planted.”

But according to Bainbridge, there are parts of his family farm that are otherwise too dry.

“We’re just pretty close to having a drought starting to kick in, too,” he said.  “We’re about five inches behind on moisture.”

So, while waiting for one field to drain, Bainbridge hopes for rain on the rest of his farm.

“Exactly,” he laughed.  “Farmers are never happy, are they.”

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