Associated Press
ST. PAUL — Farm work is progressing across much of the state thanks to nearly ideal weather last week.
The Minnesota field office the U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop report that farmers had five days suitable for field work last week.
There were highs in the low 90s across the south and precipitation was primarily confined to late in the week. Soil moisture conditions held steady.
Statewide land prepared for corn was 56 percent complete, with 40 percent planted as producers capitalized on the weather.
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Seedbeds were drying and working up well under rising temperatures and strong winds across the south.
The exception to the sunny news were conditions in the northwestern corner of the state. There, the report says, fields go from relatively wet to inaccessible due to earlier flooding.
