#Plant14 update: Minnesota corn farmers made progress last week

Minnesota corn farmers took advantage of the sunny and dry weather over the weekend to plant more than 22 percent of the state’s corn crop according to the latest USDA crop progress report.

Currently, 53 percent of Minnesota’s corn crop is in the ground. That’s 28 percent behind the 5-year average and 10 percent behind last year’s pace.

Best of luck to all the corn farmers out there battling Mother Nature and trying to get this year’s crop planted.

Minnesota Corn Growers Association President Ryan Buck had a crew from WCCO TV out to his farm near Goodhue on Sunday to get some planting footage and to give non-farmers a sense of how busy a farmer is this time of year, especially when planting has been delayed by a long winter, a wet spring and cold temperatures.