Michigan State University Extension educators report field crops are doing well despite some cold nights the last few weeks during the planting season.

Soybean specialist Mike Staton says on-field research fields planted in March in Bay County were emerged when freezes took place the third week in April.

“They look beautiful,” he says.  “They made it through the freeze event even though there were nighttime temperatures as low as 26 to 28 degrees.”

The host farmer expects less to 10 percent damage to his crop.

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