May 2024

Minnesota’s corn growers as a whole remained slightly ahead of their five-year pace entering this week, even as wet fields slowed the work, the latest USDA crop progress report showed.In Brown County, some farmers were done planting or nearly so, while others were waiting for drier conditions to finish a bulk of their acreage.“With this weather I’ve been reluctant to put too much corn in the ground,” Phil Sellner said last week on a morning that brought more rain.

Bruno, a Saint Bernard from west of Sleepy Eye, gives judge Debby Jahnke an up-close look during an International All Breed Canine Association dog show on April 27 in Hutchinson.

From left, Dylan Nilson, 9, Elsie Weicherding, 11, and Jorja Weicherding, 7, go over excerpts of “The Little Mermaid Jr.” script in the hallway outside the Sleepy Eye High School choir room while waiting to audition Saturday for Sleepy Eye Community Theater’s summer production of the musical.

The detours that started two weeks ago for the Highway 4 project south of town were just the beginning of the re-routing motorists will encounter this spring and summer.

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