Farmers in northern Minnesota are ahead of their southern counterparts when it comes to planting progress this spring.
Dave Torgerson, executive director of the Minnesota Wheat Council, says the northern part of the state missed out on a lot of the April snowstorms.
“So they’ve had black fields for awhile, and some of them are starting to plant wheat right now in the far northern part of the Red River Valley.”
He tells Brownfield in a typical spring, farmers in southern Minnesota begin planting two to three weeks before those in the north.
