FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Spring calving in North Dakota is two-thirds complete, and death losses remain mostly average to light despite the snowy and cold spring.
The federal Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that calving is 66 percent complete, with cattle and calf conditions rated mostly fair to good. Lambing is 82 percent done.
Eighty-six percent of the state’s winter wheat crop is rated fair, good or excellent. The report says farmers on average plan to start spring fieldwork on May 2.
About two-thirds of the state’s topsoil moisture supplies and about half of the subsoil moisture supplies are rated adequate to surplus.
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