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Another week in July passed and one more in the month of July. It is typically the time when corn goes thru its critical stage of pollination and soybeans continue their rapid early growth forming branches and pods while closing their thirty inch rows. It was very...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Anyone’s guess as to how both corn and soybean yields will turn out on many acres in the state and across the country is only as good as throwing darts at a dartboard. Such wacky weather that commenced in the spring of 2018 and continues to this day has been...
Finally, in the last month of May and first days of June we get the break in weather we have been hoping for. Farmers are incredible persaverent in getting the tasks at hand done, plus hate to admit defeat, when it is only Mother Nature and the Board of Trade they are...
P week has arrived. Just like there was D-Day for the invasion at Normandy, the final decisions on planting or not planting over the northern half of the state will happen.This is the week where corn growers in Iowa find out if they will finish Planting their corn...
After a month of many farmers sitting on the sidelines with the clock ticking during prime planting days, very little clarity about how the rest of the growing season will play out has appeared. The last week was interspersed with big moisture fronts marching across...
The beginning of the fourth week of March has arrived. Typically, the last of the beans are being planted and many of the early planted corn fields are nearly ready to spray for grass or broadleaves. Guys or gals who were planning to do an early sidedress are getting...