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Dry start to growing season in northwest Minnesota

The growing season is starting out dry in northwest Minnesota.

Kittson County farmer Theresia Gillie says there was far less snow than usual this winter.

“We’re used to having a pretty nice white blanket of snow, and we just never really got that. We had a couple of small snows and really only one week of what I’d call colder weather, I wouldn’t call it extreme cold. So it was quite a dry, brown winter.”

She tells Brownfield her area remains in light to moderate drought.

“And we have been since all last summer, so we are very concerned about how the crop season is going to go this year if we don’t start getting some moisture.”

Gillie, who grows soybeans and wheat, says rain is keeping her out of the field this week but she’s hoping to begin planting next week.