South Dakota farmers are making planting progress despite cool, wet weather. Southeastern South Dakota farmer Lewis Bainbridge was seeing light at the end of the tunnel on Wednesday morning.
“Well, if we have some good going, we should be done planting soybeans today,” Bainbridge told Brownfield Ag News Wednesday, from his farm near Ethan, South Dakota. “And this is probably just a titch on the early side for us.”
After his first day of planting on April 20th, Bainbridge went through some anxiety waiting for corn emergence.
“We were done planting corn just before Mother’s Day, so everything’s been in the ground,” he said. “The corn laid there for a long time before it came up, but it’s starting to come through now, so we feel pretty fortunate.”
Bainbridge farms with his two sons near Ethan.
AUDIO: Lewis Bainbridge (1 min. MP3)
