by Bob Streit | Oct 22, 2020 | Crop Watch
The month is now more than half over and in review a huge amount of progress has been made with the harvest and tillage in preparation for the 2021 season. It has meant long hours with many of those days being quite warm, very dry and extremely windy. The apprehension...
by Bob Streit | Oct 12, 2020 | Crop Watch
October has arrived and with it the shorter days of fall can definitely be seen and felt. It now stays dark until 7Am and begins to get dark shortly after 7 PM and warmer clothing now feels good at both ends of the day. The leaves on our many trees are turning their...
by Bob Streit | Sep 22, 2020 | Crop Watch
This should be the week where statewide harvest begins in earnest. There were combines operating in both corn and beans last week depending on the maturity group of bean planted while there were also corn fields being harvested where the drought stressed the plants...
by Bob Streit | Sep 11, 2020 | Crop Watch
After the 2018 and 2019 seasons when planting was delayed for most Midwest crop producers and rain washed out some of their best laid plans they were hoping for a ‘normal’ season where the planting season went well, the GDUs were adequate, and the rainfall came at the...
by Bob Streit | Aug 17, 2020 | Educational Articles
By now many people have seen pictures of this bin complex located on the west edge of Luther. It’s about six miles south of Boone, Hwy 30 and our farm place. We have heard of unofficial NWS reports of wind speeds as high as 164 mph, which is equal to a high F5 tornado...
