Warmer temperatures and sunshine allowed Iowa farmers to get back into their fields to plant crops as well as harvest a third of the first cutting of alfalfa hay.Statewide there were 4.3 days suitable for fieldwork in the week that ended Sunday.Ninety-six percent of the corn crop has emerged, four days ahead of the five-year average, according to the U.S.
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