(NewsDakota.com/NorthDakotaAgConnection.com) – There’s a practiced patience that comes from living in a state where snow still fills the ditch banks while all the rest of the farming world seems to be finishing planting season. Barney, North Dakota, farmers Mike and Chandra Langseth busy themselves during this itchy period by getting equipment lined up and ready.

Winters are long in the Dakotas, but the wheels were beginning to turn on Langseth Family Farms as the calendar flipped to May. Situated on the edge of the Red River Valley in the southeast portion of the state, the farm grows corn, soybeans and some alfalfa. Mike is employed full-time on the farm. Chandra pitches in when she’s not tending her job as an agriculture assistant professor at North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton, teaching precision agriculture and agronomy courses.

The husband-and-wife team will report throughout this growing season as part of DTN’s View From the Cab series. This weekly feature focuses on crop growing conditions and takes a bird’s-eye look at many aspects of farming through the lens of farming correspondents from two geographically diverse regions.

Zach Grossman from Tina, Missouri will also give reports this season. Besides growing corn, soybeans, wheat, forages and raising cattle, Grossman juggles a job as a loan officer at a local bank. Find the profile on his operation