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Soil conditions need to improve

After the cold, harsh winter an Indiana farmer isn’t surprised that Mother Nature is taking her time getting in to spring.  Vanderburgh County, Indiana farmer Randy Kron says the ground is nowhere close to being ready to plant.  Especially after the 5” of rain they just received.  “This rain has been a cold rain,” he says.  “We have thawed out, so we’re better than our northern friends.  I understand some of them aren’t thawed out all the way through yet.”

Kron tells Brownfield, “I hate to say this, but the way Mother Nature has been this year it looks like we’re not going to have a really early spring.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it will dry up here and let us get started planting and doing something in the field.”

Much of Indiana received another round of cold rain yesterday that could delay the start of planting even further.