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9 May 2022
Heading into May 9, 2022, farmers in the Northern Plains and northwest Minnesota are behind on planting due to heavy snow, rain in April and now spring flooding. Western North Dakota and parts of southern Canada saw massive snowfalls in April, and while the moisture helped ease drought conditions, spring planting was delayed. In northwest Minnesota...
6 May 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Raymond Simpkins would like to file a missing season report. Spring, last seen in April of 2021, has not shown up to its usual appointment where he farms in southeast Michigan. "The weather here is more like February: freezing nights and highs in the 40s," Simpkins lamented. "We have had one day above 70 degrees in April." S...
5 May 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Raymond Simpkins would like to file a missing season report. Spring, last seen in April of 2021, has not shown up to its usual appointment where he farms in southeast Michigan. "The weather here is more like February: freezing nights and highs in the 40s," Simpkins lamented. "We have had one day above 70 degrees in April." S...
5 May 2022
Grain market news during the first week of May featured the slow pace of corn planting: 14% nationwide as of Sunday, May 1, 28 percentage points behind the 42% progress a year ago and 19 percentage points behind the five-year average of 33%. It's also the slowest planting pace since 2013. In that year, corn planting was only 5% planted by April 28 ...
5 May 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Oklahoma Hard Red Winter (HRW) wheat production this year will likely be about half of the 2021 harvest, as widespread drought and recent high winds took a toll on plants. The Oklahoma Grain and Feed Association assessed the state's HRW wheat crop in late April and reported the findings Tuesday, May 3, during its annual meetin...