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Wisconsin farmer says corn looking very good, soybeans okay

A southern Wisconsin farmer says his corn looks good, but the soybeans are struggling a little.

Ryan Nell raises crops on 22-hundred acres near Juneau, Wisconsin.  He tells Brownfield planting was delayed a few times by wet weather, and the nearby tornado from nearly two weeks ago brought minimal damage and rain. “We got an inch, inch and a half out of that with some hail and then we just got two and a half inches here this last week so some of the ground is packed down a little bit. There’s some water sitting. Nothing that we’ll think about replanting or doing anything like that, just patching in some areas but we kind of need some heat right now. That’s the main part.”

Nell says he has one field that had early signs of trouble with a poor-looking rye cover crop. “Slugs already ate all of the cereal rye that was there and now they’re going after the beans, so we might be doing a little replanting towards the end of the week. Not much, just 30-40 acres and patching a few more in.”

Nell says another challenge so far this spring is the large number of days where it was too windy to spray, so he caught up on most of his spraying Monday.