Video: Farmers Return To Fields, Utility Looks For Land
After what seemed like weeks of waiting, producers across the state were able to get in the fields thanks to unseasonably warm weather and lots of sun. The Great Lakes Regional Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service reports planting of corn and soybeans is now in full swing and alfalfa and hay fields in southeast Michigan jumped in maturity. Corn is now 38-percent planted in Michigan, with 32-percent of soybeans in the ground and sugarbeets nearly done at 94-percent of the crop planted. While things are drying out across much of Michigan, things are too dry in the eastern Upper Peninsula, which is slowing down progress.