 Northeast Iowa farmer Suzanne Sherbrunn says the wet spring made for a challenging planting season. We had four different planting sessions, I should say, but we got it in. We finished up May 18th. Frequent heavy rains are making livestock handling more difficult. Cow-calf producer Jake Thompson of Barnesville in northwest Minnesota says the most impact is on outdoor open dirt lots. Mud itself is about one of the worst things there is for cattle, especially when you're looking at some of those fat cattle that are