South Dakota corn planting is at the slowest pace since 1995 and with the continued wet forecast farmers will have to switch corn maturities or even move to soybeans. The USDA crop progress report showed corn planting at only 19-percent done in the state verses the 76-percent five-year average. Pioneer agronomist Larry Osborne says the cutoff date for corn planting for crop insurance is May 25 and that is also an agronomic point where yield loss starts.

He recommends farmers start looking at moving to a shorter day length corn hybrid, if they can find it.

Osborne says in eastern South Dakota farmers will need to move several Relative Maturity groups on corn.

Soybean planting in the state is also lagging at 4-percent versus 39-percent normally.