A USDA meteorologist says there are good and bad aspects of the Upper Midwest soil moisture profile going into the 2021 growing season. The agency’s Midwest Climate Hub director Dennis Todey says last year’s soil moisture in South Dakota was high following two wet years, but this year those soils are much drier.
“We’re probably going to be able to get into the field a little sooner than we have some other years because our soils are so dry, and it also may allow our crop to root better,” said Todey, speaking at a meeting of the Southeast Experiment Farm near Beresford, South Dakota.
