Poll: Cautious optimism approaching 2021 growing season

As any farmer worth their salt knows, Mother Nature can be a capricious and sometimes viscious partner when it comes to growing crops and forages.

Progressive Forage asked readers to describe their feelings about upcoming growing season. The largest individual segment of respondents, about 35%, were ambivalent about the 2021 growing season. A collective 48.9% responded that they are optimistic about this year, with the remainder of voters, a collective 15.9%, taking a dimmer view.  

On a scale of 1-5, which best describes your expectations for the 2021 growing season?

• 1 - Very poor: 4.5%

• 2 - Poor: 11.4%

• 3 - Neutral: 35.2%

• 4 - Optimistic: 29.6%

• 5 - Very optimistic: 19.3%