Corn planting jump started last week in Michigan.
Jim Zook with Michigan Corn tells Brownfield warmer soil temperatures have allowed farmers to plant more.
“We’re to the point now that the soil temperatures have now seemed to stay above that 50° threshold limit, and they’re staying above that temperature at night, that’s what we want,” he says.
The USDA says corn is now 16 percent planted, ahead of last year and the five-year average.
