Farmers across Iowa are bracing for planting delays after wet conditions limited field work following harvest last fall and prevented them from making up time this spring.

“We did get some oats planted last week before it got wet again,” Ida County Farm Bureau member Sam Bennett said last week. “There’s been a little anhydrous ammonia going on, but it’s been plenty wet.”

Statewide, oat planting was at its slowest pace since 2013, a year when prevented planting issues were common,...