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Wet conditions keeping farmers out of fields

Cold, wet weather continues to hamper the end of harvest in Michigan which is running behind last year and the five-year average.

The USDA says the state’s corn crop condition is 41 percent good to excellent with 83 percent mature, 25 percent harvested for grain and 91 percent harvested for silage.

Soybeans are 57 percent harvested while dry beans are 87 percent complete and sugarbeets are 55 percent harvested.

Winter wheat planting is 86 percent complete with 66 percent of the crop emerged.