Well so much for the good week of weather. As soon as I wrote the last blog they put rain back in the forecast and today we are getting wet. We are starting to get the same feeling we have had the last two years heading into April. This makes the third wet spring in a row. In our area we were about 2-3 days away from doing some fieldwork. We did get the corn planter, and NH3 toolbar out and ran them to make sure everything is working. If we get any significant amount of rain we will be pushed into the second week of April.
We are taking delivery of our trees today, so hopefully we will be able to get some of the CRP acres planted in the week ahead. This year our tree planting business is down quite a bit. A lot of the ground that needed to be in CRP already is and with higher commodity prices the last few years putting ground into CRP is not as economically beneficial as raising a good corn crop. However, if a new sign up period begins after the last two wet years I think there will be some more people enroll in the program.
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