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Crop Watch October 28, 2016 By Bob Streit – Columnist, Farm News The 2016 harvest is continuing for growers in most parts of the state. Though last week's dry weather was a gift from the heavens, having only three to four hours of drying conditions on half the days...
Crop Watch October 21, 2016 By Bob Streit – Columnist, Farm News The month is more than half-way complete and harvest progress is moving along erratically. In spite of often rosy weather predictions many of the days instead of being warm and sunny end up cloudy, and...
Crop Watch October 15, 2016 By Bob Streit – Columnist, Farm News The 2016 fall harvest of the two major crops continues and is the focus of activity and agriculture in the Midwest. Farmers are putting in long hours while the employees of the many grain elevators get...
Crop Watch October 7, 2016 By Bob Streit – Columnist, Farm News [full article] October brings its shorter days, cooler temps and a harvest that is well underway. In the state the big news last week and the week before were the big rains that fell in eastern Iowa,...
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Crop Watch September 23, 2016 By Bob Streit – Columnist, Farm News [full article] As we enter the last half of September in our march to the start of harvest, we seem to have two widely differing camps. On one side are the absolute lords of the high yield predictors...
Crop Watch September 16, 2016 By Bob Streit – Columnist, Farm News [full article] During the last two or three weeks the first signs and feel of fall have begun to invade. Nightfall comes earlier, the nights have cooled off and the crabgrass is in all its glory. The...
Crop Watch September 2, 2016 By Bob Streit – Columnist, Farm News [full article] August is history and harvest will be here before we know it. It seems like just yesterday we were getting the equipment ready for the spring work and wondering what the optimum time to...
Crop Watch August 26, 2016 By Bob Streit – Columnist, Farm News [full article] As we quickly march into the end of summer and the growing part of the growing season enters its final month we realize that in about two months we will get to measure the success or...
Crop Watch August 19, 2016 By Bob Streit – Columnist, Farm News [full article] It's now mid-August and a lot of things will be happening shortly. More and more of the local field days will be held by seed dealers as they hope to show off their top-performing hybrids...