West of Mpls MN about 50 miles on Hwy 12 | Ya, not many corn, and soybean acres are planted in the Arrowhead Region of MN.
The Northern half, and the Arrowhead Region of MN normally experiences frost early/mid September.
Don't let the seed corn sponsors fool you. 32*F does not hurt seed corn germ. Seed corn production on the irrigated central sands area will be fine, it is a small, and magical area. ;-) The big power plants, and the Mississippi river seem to keep the area several degrees warmer than the surrounding areas just a few short miles away.
And the seed corn companies have been harvesting for over a week now in that area, so quite a few seed corn acres have been harvested already.
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