by Bob Streit | Jun 16, 2020 | Crop Watch
Mid-June is here and we are marching towards July, with knee high by July 4th. That is still the benchmark from being on or ahead of schedule for corn development in the Midwest. When growers were going full bore planting corn and beans it seemed the crop was going to...
by Bob Streit | Jun 12, 2020 | Crop Watch
Thus ended the first week of June, 2020. All seven days were suitable for fieldwork, which let a lot of work get completed and the crops noticeably add height and development stages. A few areas had heavy rain and a few of those experienced damaging hail where the...
by Bob Streit | Jun 3, 2020 | Crop Watch
So how would everyone rate the spring, the 2020 planting season, the condition of the crop? All in all, we would have to give it an A for most of the state. In parts of NE and MO farmers are still struggling to get planting completed. So we have reasons to feel...
by Bob Streit | May 26, 2020 | Crop Watch
As we enter the last week of May we can all think of how in the farming community not much has changed in that as you prepared machinery for the spring, figured out crop management plans, booked product, and figured out the jobs for each person in your operation, not...
by Bob Streit | May 21, 2020 | Crop Watch
Another week of the 2020 planting season has passed and basically it was a good week after our warmup finally arrived. Most farmers in the state lucked out by just a few degrees as temps in different parts of the state and Midwest had one of our most severe late...
