A few growers have planted soybeans, but acreage is limited. Wheat fields continue to look variable, with earliest fields tillering and beginning to elongate. Conditions during the past week have contrasted good and poor fields. Spring grains and forages are beginning to emerge uniformly in earliest planted fields. Forage fields continue to look tough.
Fields are variable depending somewhat on drainage, soil type and fall cutting date.
Surviving plants are also displaying variable growth with some plants showing 4 to 5 inches of growth and others just beginning some crown growth. To date alfalfa growth is behind normal. Winter annuals are beginning to bolt and bloom in some wheat and forage fields. Dandelions are beginning to bloom with the promise of a good crop, and many wheat fields have their first flush of annual weeds. Wheat and rye crops are being sprayed with glyphosate while quackgrass is just approaching proper stage for spraying.