By Bob Streit
Columist, Farm News
Great news from John Kempf about his first book! I am excited to announce the release of my first book. Quality Agriculture, conversations about regenerative agronomy with innovative scientists and growers is available on Amazon in time for Father’s Day....
Mid-June is here and we are marching towards July, with knee high by July 4th. That is still the benchmark from being on or ahead of schedule for corn development in the Midwest. When growers were going full bore planting corn and beans it seemed the crop was going to...
Thus ended the first week of June, 2020. All seven days were suitable for fieldwork, which let a lot of work get completed and the crops noticeably add height and development stages. A few areas had heavy rain and a few of those experienced damaging hail where the...
So how would everyone rate the spring, the 2020 planting season, the condition of the crop? All in all, we would have to give it an A for most of the state. In parts of NE and MO farmers are still struggling to get planting completed. So we have reasons to feel...
As we enter the last week of May we can all think of how in the farming community not much has changed in that as you prepared machinery for the spring, figured out crop management plans, booked product, and figured out the jobs for each person in your operation, not...
Another week of the 2020 planting season has passed and basically it was a good week after our warmup finally arrived. Most farmers in the state lucked out by just a few degrees as temps in different parts of the state and Midwest had one of our most severe late...
Back into the deep freeze was the message for part of the last week. Aren’t Polar Vortexes supposed to move thru and bring the bone chilling weather during the winter? So what one or two of them doing marching across much of the country in the second week of May. We...
I’m Grant with Phytobiotics and am tickled to be writing a blurb for Bob and Team at “the CIA.” Bob’s a smart guy, and I really hope I measure up to the standard in this community! We at Phytobiotics make foliar feeds that use amino acid technology to get minerals...
Most people involved in Ag agree that they have never seen such a fast and problem free planting season. Lots can happen in ten days if most of the days are sunny and rain free. With more 16 to 36 row planters operating these days one does not see that many rigs in...
What a difference a year makes. We went from an Easter Snow in northern Iowa to planting the first corn and beans in the later part of the week. Due to the cold temps predicted for the weekend quite a few farmers practiced caution and waited until Monday or Tuesday...