by Bob Streit | Jun 12, 2024 | Crop Watch
How would one categorize the last of winter, spring and how our summer season has progressed and how it resembled other years in regards to cropping progress and the weather? More than one person remarked that it was most similar to 1991 when in the northern third of...
by Bob Streit | Jun 3, 2024 | Crop Watch
June has arrived and the planting season is continuing. The planters in Iowa began operating around April 10 and continue operating for many growers in the Midwest in one of the most drug-out seasons since 1991. Similarly, as that year we received significant rain...
by Bob Streit | May 23, 2024 | Farm News
We are now into the days of late May and the plantings season is in all stages of completion. The first corn and beans in Iowa and surrounding states were planted during the first ten days of April when soil temps remained cool with forecasts for colder weather ahead....
by Bob Streit | May 9, 2024 | Crop Watch
May is here and we are now at the point where many of us are wishing that the weather men or women would deliver a week of dry weather. A number of the people who noted the number of fog days in January were expecting a rainy April. The first part of the month brought...
by Bob Streit | Apr 9, 2024 | Crop Watch
April is here and the weather in the month can be very fickle. This was proven by the short periods of heavy snow which occurred on two days last week. Generally warm temps were the rule thru most of Feb and March with many days of record warmth. It almost felt like a...
