Cool, wet weather brought a slight improvement to Michigan moisture levels last week. The U.S. Drought Monitor reports abnormally dry conditions persist across most of the state with moderate drought spanning across southern regions and some easing in the Upper Peninsula.
In its weekly crop progress report, USDA says farmers have planted two percent of corn, one percent of soybeans, 47 percent of oats, and 60 percent of sugarbeets—still all ahead of the five-year average. Topsoil moisture is 87 percent adequate to surplus and subsoil moisture is at 84 percent.
