A northwest Missouri farmer is about to wrap up planting, Richard Oswald tells Brownfield his corn is in the ground and he has one more field of soybeans to go.

“About 100 acres to go and the beans will be planted,” he said. “For us, this is really early for soybeans because given the weather that we’ve had for the last several years, we may have had a few fields that we were still working to get done by the first of June.”

He said a weekend inch of rain in his area helped recharge the soil in what’s been a mostly dry spring.

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