by Bob Streit | Sep 20, 2019 | Crop Watch
Mid-Sept has arrived and much of the final yield and harvest pace will depend on the weather the next four weeks. We will get to analyze the growing season and all of the management steps and products used in our major crops. Once harvest starts and we begin to get...
by Bob Streit | Sep 12, 2019 | Crop Watch
The sun is setting twenty minutes earlier each week as we move later into the growing season. This year that will be worth keeping track of as about one third of the corn crop was planted in June. Whether or not that portion makes it to black layer before a freeze...
by Bob Streit | Sep 4, 2019 | Crop Watch
September came in like a lamb. How will it go out? A year ago the start of September was marked by very heavy rain that moved in on a Saturday where both the ISU and UNL football games were rained out. The heavy rains lasted thru early October and produced flooded...
by Bob Streit | Aug 31, 2019 | Crop Watch
The first two thirds of the year are past and we now move into September. While August is typically the month most important to both corn and bean yields, this year September might be just as important for corn yields in the fields where the plants are lagging several...
by Bob Streit | Aug 23, 2019 | Crop Watch
The better part of the summer and the growing season in the Midwest is over with. In many areas the struggles to get planted and nurse the crops are over with, but we are left with the aftermath. When traveling thru Iowa and surrounding states most of the cover crops...
