A farmer in Michigan’s Thumb says a break in the weather last week helped get sugarbeets planted.
Huron County’s Katie Adam tells Brownfield, “I would say we probably pushed the envelope on getting those out in the ground.”
“We then got rained out on Friday afternoon. I think we got just over an inch of rain,” she says.
The USDA says three percent of corn, soybeans, and sugarbeet crops in Michigan are planted as of Sunday, all behind the five-year average. Michigan sugarbeets were 64 percent planted last year at this time.
Adam says she’s hopeful fields can dry out in the week ahead.
“Everybody gets pretty itchy this time of year to get things rolling, especially those growers who maybe have sugar beets in the rotation,” she shares. “For the most part, it’s still pretty early, and there’s still time.”
Michigan wheat is rated 60 percent good to excellent.
Moisture levels are in a surplus of 42 percent of topsoil and 30 percent of subsoil across the state.
