by Bob Streit | May 15, 2019 | Crop Watch
After we have watched the optimum time period for planting corn in much of the central Iowa float by with excessive rain and cold weather during April and the first half of May the future of this year’s corn and soybean crops as we normally produce them hang in the...
by Bob Streit | May 6, 2019 | Crop Watch
Now the month of May has arrived and not much has changed weather-wise in the last week or two. Wet and cool conditions existed in the Sacramento area and in the state of Arkansas during the late winter/early spring time frames as harbingers of what we would expect to...
by Bob Streit | Apr 30, 2019 | Crop Watch
May arrives earlier this week, even though the prospect of receiving snow in northern Iowa and in neighboring states over the weekend made it feel like late winter rather than late spring. Luckily the jet stream shifted slightly from its predicted path and snowfall...
by Bob Streit | Apr 22, 2019 | Crop Watch
Finally, the skies cleared and spring seems to have made up her mind and decided to stay, instead of letting Old Man Winter back into the Midwest. A week ago parts of SE Iowa and western Illinois picked up as much as five inches of snow. The winds were still from the...
by Bob Streit | Apr 16, 2019 | Crop Watch
Mid-April is here and in most recent years the corn planters in the central and western Iowa have begun running strong across many acres, while the growers in Eastern and Northern parts of the state are revving their engines. This year the pace has been slowed by...
