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Late July is here and the summer seems to be flying by. Not having any spring produced a time crunch with all the early field work. Then the very warm May and first half of June sped corn growth so corn went from emerging to showing tassels in weeks shorter than...
July 15th arrived with prediction for the state and the weekend for flash flooding in many areas for the entire weekend. That did not materialize and for that we are thankful. Instead we had a Saturday which was cool and cloudy for the first part of the day, followed...
After a week that was interrupted by the 4th of July holiday and rain again in the Northwest part of the state growers in the state get another chance to try to get things back to normal. Seven days ago we woke up after the Des Moines area received 5 to 10 inches of...
After one of the most severe monsoon seasons in recent years the farming natives in the northwest 3/4th of Iowa have to be wondering what is next in store for them. About three weeks ago the noted, and often deadly accurate climatologist that most people have never...
As we now move into the last week of June and get ready for the important cropping month of July it might be good to look around and make comments on how things have gone so far. So what might different people in different states say? In northern and many parts of...
Just as many farmers in central and north central Iowa watch the calendar roll past June 10 and believed they could clean up their planters and back them into the shed for the off season. Since then scattered and intense storm lines marched across the regions and only...
The early part of the growing season is getting closer to ending for the growers in central and southern Iowa. Though there is no clear definition of what it the early part of the season, it can be considered the time after planting to when tractor traffic through the...
June is here and what a month it has been so far. While we had to endure the coldest and snowiest April on record this spring, the month of May surprised us as being one of the warmest on record for many locations in the Midwest. Then beginning two weeks ago the blast...
As we move into the lasts few days of May it might be good to look around and pass judgment on how the season has done so far. Considering that our last big snow of 12” fell only about five weeks ago farmers have made remarkable progress. Everyone was putting in very...
Just as one of Clint Eastwood’s best cowboy movies was called ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, we could call this spring and the planting season so far “The good, The Bad and The Ugly”. There is no average, just a wide spread in how the crops look as of May 20th...