“Everything is drying up. We’re shaping up. In 2012 we planted the earliest we’ve ever planted, April 4th on river bottoms, and this year we’re getting ready to lay tile in some of those same fields because it’s shaping up. In the last couple days I’ve seen people pre-planting anhydrous ammonia, so things are moving forward in southern Indiana.”
But it won’t be an early start in Jasper County for Kendall Culp.
“Things could change pretty quickly obviously, but I don’t look for this to be an early spring. We’re probably 30 days away from planting. The soil is awfully cold.”
He told HAT that soil moisture levels are good and tiles are running, but soils that tend to be wet are very wet right now.
“This spring we’re looking at I think a later than average start. We’ve been spoiled the last couple of years so it’s hard to say what average is anymore. But I think we’ll be able to do some ground work ahead of time but we really need to be patient waiting for the ground 
And David Etherington near Kokomo says weather forecasts that include rain and no significant warm-up tell him planting is still further down the road, but he is still optimistic.
“Snow melt was slow enough and the rains have been small enough that our ground is not saturated, so I think we may dry up quicker than what we expected. We’ve got a lot of ground temperature to get back but that happens sometimes faster than what we think it will.”
