Wisconsin planting progress slow, but some crops emerging

Wisconsin planting progress slow, but some crops emerging

An agronomist says a few farmers that were able to plant during the unusually warm weather three weeks ago are seeing some emerging plants.

Aricka Wech with Pioneer works with farmers in southwestern Wisconsin.  She tells Brownfield she has been in fields from the Illinois state line north to the Viroqua area, and what has emerged is looking good. “We see some healthy, white tissue. That seed is still firm. Soybeans have all the way from a half-inch radicle to three inches as you head farther south.

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