Fieldwork is underway for central Ohio farmer John Linder.

“At this point we’re warmer and drier than normal,” he says. “We’ve got decent soil moisture. I’m putting on a little fertilizer with a strip-tiller to plant corn over and right now I’m making dust, but I’m turning up moisture in the strips.”

He says conditions are nearly ideal.

“If it were a little later in the month, we’d probably be planting corn,” he says.

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