WEEKLY CROP UPDATE

Small grain and corn planting is underway in Minnesota. USDA’s latest weekly crop update says oats are 9-percent seeded, spring wheat is 1-percent and 1-percent of the state’s intended corn acres are planted.  Farmers also do tillage and apply fertilizer and manure.  Topsoil moisture supplies are rated at 70-percent adequate to surplus and subsoil moisture is 55-percent adequate to surplus.