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September 2018 is now in the rear view mirror and we now enter that last quarter of the year. So far everything weather wise has been one of extremes. It seems very strange to see with farmers in northern or NW Iowa and their biggest challenge has been coping with the...
With harvest time approaching everyone connected to agriculture has to be hoping that it quits raining shortly and we have a perfect month of 65 to 75 degree weather. There will be no more weather fronts that drop 4 to 10 inches of rain across the northern one third...
It is Sunday night and there was harvest activity in the neighborhood with both corn and soybeans being harvested. Luckily we didn’t have the rush to harvest like the poor souls down in the Carolinas did as hurricane Florence bore down on those two states. I have not...
Hurricane Harvey and Irma pounded Texas last September with seven to ten days of heavy rains. Much of the Midwest didn’t have a declared hurricane, but when a person looked at the weather map beginning a week ago the forecast for about a week’s worth of rain seemed to...
September is here and the busy month of August is passed. We now enter the month in which the final bushels of grain are produced and added onto the kernels on the ears and the seeds in the pods. Give us a warm month with lots of sunshine, plentiful but not too much...
With the end of the 2018 growing season getting closer there is still much uncertainty about what sort of yields farmers in different parts of the Midwest can expect. The ProFarmer Crop Tour took place thru the central part of the Midwest and their guesses were about...
Most growers with good memories can instantly recall the weird weather years in which storms, tornados, blizzards, floods or droughts ruled the weather and greatly determined how great or how poorly the crops responded. Weather, whether good or bad, wet or dry, sunny...
We have now hit the midpoint of August and it’s time to do an assessment of how the crops look and are projecting for yield, as well as deciding if there is anything else that needs to be done to them. Based on perhaps the weirdest growing season most of us have lived...
So far this growing season has been one for extremes, nothing has been average. April was the coldest and snowiest on record in many areas, as in northern IA and southern MN. The conditions caused a delayed planting season in most areas with the crops being planted...
August is here and the results from the first 2/3rd of the growing season are very mixed, depending on latitude within your region, drainage capacity, and topography. People that travel a lot within the Midwest say it is a good crop coming on with areas expecting...