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Missouri farmers make good progress in corn planting

There was significant corn planting progress this past week in Missouri.  The National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) says Missouri farmers are 46 percent done with corn, 32 percentage points behind a year ago, but central Missouri farmer Nathan Alpers is finished.

“It’s always good to have the corn in in the month of April,” Alpers told Brownfield Ag News Monday.  “In fact, I’ve started planting beans; the earliest I’ve ever experienced it, but I started planting the east end of the beans April 19^th, and got a few hundred acres planted.  Both crops are going in well.”

Officially, Missouri soybean planting is only 2 percent complete, according to NASS. Cotton planting is 13 percent complete and rice planting is 65 percent complete.

Topsoil moisture is 82 percent adequate to surplus.  Winter wheat is 70 percent good to excellent.

Missouri pastures are 72 percent good to excellent.

AUDIO: Nathan Alpers (3 min. MP3)