by Bob Streit | Jul 15, 2019 | Crop Watch
With projected high temperatures for the next week above 90 F for the next week, after the months of March thru June setting all time yearly records for amount of rainfall, we have to wonder if we are living up some biblical prophesies. Coupled with the immediate...
by Bob Streit | Jul 11, 2019 | Crop Watch
The 4th of July holiday period is behind us now. In central Iowa we followed up a 3” rainfall week with a 4” precipitation week. The combination of heat and moisture has been great for the crops and just what the crop doctors ordered. The muggy nature to each day...
by Bob Streit | Jul 6, 2019 | Educational Articles
Late planted soybeans face several challenges. They stay shorter and form fewer branches, making podded node counts lower. Adding additional branches, supplying minerals, boosting energy supply (sugars) for the plant and for the rhizosphere microbes are key. Applying...
by Bob Streit | Jul 3, 2019 | Crop Watch
July 2019 has arrived and the 4th is this Thursday. And in keeping with a decades old axiom we need to ask “Is all of your corn knee high by now?” Unfortunately, across the entire Midwest millions of acres of corn are barely ankle high. Similarly, many of the bean...
by Bob Streit | Jun 27, 2019 | Crop Watch
Now that summer has officially arrived we can begin by summarizing how the spring went and what we can expect to happen during the first part of the season. After the delayed start to the 2018 planting season where many of the crops got planted weeks late we were all...
