Spring planting is still between one to two weeks away for farmers in Walsh and Pembina Counties. Most fields are still wet and several have snow piled deep in the shelterbelts like this field located on North Dakota Highway 5 east of Jolliette. Photo by Mike Alan Steinfeldt.
By all accounts, spring planting is still a week or more away in Pembina and Walsh Counties. Farmers in the region have yet to get out into fields that were, until recently, frozen.
According to many farmers in northeast North Dakota, that could even be a little on the early side.
Travis Uggerud, who farms south west of Drayton and plans to plant sugar beets, wheat, and sunflowers this year, told Va…
