Leah Johnson has the crop planted and has started spraying small grains. Johnson says the planters are still rolling in the Elbow Lake/Evansville, Minnesota area. “In the vast majority of our area around Elbow Lake, we were about four weeks behind normal for getting small grain, corn and beans in,” said Johnson. “You don’t go too far west and south of us and we still have guys trying to finish corn, trying to finish beans, and farming around potholes. That’s been the theme of this spring.” A Memorial Day storm brought 2.5-to-four inches of rain to the region. “We are extremely impressed considering what this crop has gone through to get planted and with some of the surface flooding we had on fields. With all of those factors again, this crop looks fantastic.”
