BY JESI MUNGUIA
Michigan fruit farmers are comfortable with spring taking it's time to get here. Row crop farmers however are singing another tune.
Due to the cold temperatures farmers haven't been able to plant seeds in the field for spring crops. These include field corn, soybeans, dry beans and sugar beets.
Bob Boehm is with the Michigan Farm Bureau. He said the later farmers wait to plant the more concern they have about critical points in the growing process. Which could affect the total yield.
"It's important we get out on the fields over the next 30 to 45 days depending on the Spring planted crops so that we have the maximum yield potential. When that happens we just ask for people to be aware of the timing and the equipment on the roads and the long hours that people are going to have to put in to try to take advantage of that window of opportunity to get the crops planted." Boehm said.
Boehm said there's a lot of optimism about fruit crops this year. Fruit farmers welcome relief after last year's early bloom and then killing frost.