Tissue Testing and New High Efficiency Fertilizer

Now that we have past the July 4th holiday weekend and the crop forecasters think they have good feel for the crop size of the corn and bean crops. On the producer side we recognize that what we consider normal with weather is not occurring in much of the Midwest. On...

Corn Borers, Spider Mites, Thrips, and Leaf Hoppers

Another page on the calendar gets turned over and we enter the month of July. It is typically the month with the hottest temperatures and less rain received than the crops use, so the plants are relying on deep profile moisture to form the pollen, extend the silk and...

Soil Health & Crop Growth

The cropping tightrope walk of 2021 in the Midwest continues. As was reported earlier this week over 50% of the Midwest was in the abnormally dry to some stage of drought. In a year where grain prices have soared due to low supplies and the financial success of...

Our Late Frost

The 2021 growing season is shaping up and several challenges have already been imposed by nature. Lack of heat, shortages or excesses in moisture, late frosts, and now an excess in temperatures, the entire season seems to be one high wire tightrope walk where each...

Crop Status

As the season progresses into late May there appears to be a big discrepancy for soil moisture levels between different sections of the state. In central Iowa and west, last week consisted of five days with rain but barely one inch of accumulated moisture. That will...