Ohio soils need warm, dry weather for planting

Ohio soils need warm, dry weather for planting

Planting has started in pockets of Ohio based on soil conditions

Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Brian Baldrige tells Brownfield drier weather in the southern part of the state has helped farmers.

“A lot of guys are kind of putting some crops in,” he says. “Down home this week we only got 1/10 of an inch of rain so there are a lot of planters in the field down South. It’s sporadic, but it’s a normal spring.”

Ohio State University’s Carl Zulauf says the north-central region is wet.