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Pisek, N.D., farmer Darren Kadlec’s 2021 planting season began six weeks earlier than last year. 3:37 pm, May 6, 2021 ×
Pisek, N.D., farmer Darren Kadlec is hoping for timely rains this growing season as he prepares his land for planting corn this week. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
PISEK, N.D. – Dry weather has resulted in a smooth start to Darren Kadlec’s 2021 planting season.
The Pisek farmer is nearly finished planting his wheat, and on an early May day was wheeling his 4760 John Deere tractor that was pulling a harrow-packer across a field to ready the ground for corn. With about 40% of Kadlec s corn already planted, he is well ahead of last year’s planting pace.
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North Dakota farmers plan to go big on soybean, corn acres this year, report says
If North Dakota farmers plant 7 million acres of soybeans the state will have the fourth largest soybean acreage in the United States, behind only longtime leaders, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, according to the March 31 U.S. Department of Agriculture prospective planting report. 9:00 am, Apr. 1, 2021 ×
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As the 2021 spring planting season gets under way, it appears that North Dakota farmers will put in fewer acres of spring wheat and significantly more corn and soybeans than they did last year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture prospective plantings report, released on Wednesday, March 31, estimated North Dakota farmers will seed 3.3 million acres of corn, a 69% increase over the 1.95 million acres they planted last year. The USDA report, based on a survey of the planting plans of about 78,900 U.S. farmers, is conducted during the first two wee