No Milo or Beans planted. Any hay mowed usually lays a week before baling. Lots of crop damage from blowing sand. Reports of some tomato plants being cut off and blown to the down wind side of the field. Most fields are planted, lots of respraying to be done from poor herbicide performance due to the dry weather.
First cutting is under way, most fields a few days away from any blossoms.
Soybean emergance is extremely slow this year, not sure if from drought or cool weather the past two weeks. With a late warm fall last year and a early spring this year, weeds have had plenty of time to germinate and spread faster than normal this spring. Much of the weed praying has been steped up a couple of weeks this spring. Dave has a large selection of great crop and farm pictures from this springs planting season on his farm web site . This timely information can help in crop marketing and crop management.