Farmers in southeast Minnesota are taking advantage of a mild start to April.

Jim O’Connor of Blooming Prairie tells Brownfield he and other corn and soybean growers in the area were out in force last week.

“We had some incredible weather and people got excited, and we were able to get some spraying done, get some rocks picked, and fertilizer spread.”

He says this week looks more like mid-April for southern Minnesota.

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