By Bob Streit
Columist, Farm News
At last springtime weather has arrived and the nasty, chilling cold temperatures of the disappearing winter are subsiding. Days in the mid 40s will become more common and the last of the eight to ten foot tall snowdrifts will melt away following gravity into the soil...
Hello again. We are one week closer to spring. While a week ago the 10 day and 30 day weather forecast was for much cooler weather and a chance of snow, things turned around for us with temps in the low to mid 30s with rain on Saturday. Seeing the snow melt was great...
A great line-up of speakers will be presenting at our “Show Me the Money” pre-season meeting. You won’t want to miss this cutting edge information and the opportunity to get your questions answered. This meeting is designed to provide the latest field crop production...
March 1st is here and typically the snow banks are slowly melting away. The hours of sunlight are increasing which should be giving us daily highs in the high 30s. In a few weeks the first early flowers should be pushing thru the snow to display their beautiful...
It has been a very busy two weeks here. Three days in St Louis, two nights in S Dakota, two nights in Lincoln and finally two days in La Crosse. Most of the trips were for holding meetings or attending conferences that were Ag related. At the meetings growers were...
A great line-up of speakers will be presenting at our “Show Me the Money” pre-season meeting. You won’t want to miss this cutting edge information and the opportunity to get your questions answered. This meeting is designed to provide the latest field crop production...
Another week, another six to ten inches of snow. Two days midweek with nighttime temps below zero with strong winds. Plow out the yard and plan to do the same this next week. It’s beginning to get monotonous for a lot of people, thus anyone able to fly south for at...
Beauveria bassiana has been used as an insecticide and fungicide for several years in the organic industry. It was researched heavily by ISU entomologists a decade or two ago after it was found living inside corn plants where it has parasitizeed corn borer larvae for...
The month of Feb is the shortest month and it typically flies by in what seems like minutes. It begins with us wondering if March will ever arrive and then we wonder how it got here so fast. The big Iowa Power Show stands somewhat as the Midpoint of winter or the...
So far, so good. We are now past what is traditionally the coldest and worst part of the winter. I was going to ask what happened to the old style of blizzards that lasted three or four days and shut down entire sections of the Midwest. While we never saw it our...