By Bob Streit
Columist, Farm News
The early mid-point of the summer is here and it may be wise to evaluate what has gone right and what may have done the opposite. In many ways there were lots of firsts that we had to deal with. Never before have we had to worry so much about laying in supplies or...
Contact Organics and their nontoxic herbicide products are finding HAPPY CUSTOMERS that are interested in solving problematic species problems while improving the soil. #1 – Harvard University This PDF shows the results of a trial done by groundkeepers at Harvard...
Semi loads of SoyFX were shipped to western Nebraska after they had hail storms with stones the size of softballs. It performs a task that we have been searching for. SoyFX is a specific combination of identified and tested microbials that elicit a positive crop...
What a difference two weeks makes. The first week of June many acres of soybeans still had to be planted. Lots of acres of corn had just been planted and were beginning to emerge. Of the corn that had emerged most acres were only in the V1 to V2 growth stage. The...
June is here and surprisingly many parts of the cornbelt are struggling to get their last percentage of corn planted. It took a long time for the warmer air and fronts to make their way north and act like the warm weather was here to stay. A glance at the weather maps...
If this is supposed to be the last half of the spring why are parts of Colorado and much of the mountain west getting over 24 inches of snow? When the forecast was released it sounded a bit outlandish as the snow season was supposed to be long over with. Guess not....
Conditions have changed as of Monday 5/9 as that the temperatures are supposed to reach into the 90 F category for three or four days. That would be welcome in that it should warm the ground up and start us on the path of accumulating GDUs much faster than previous....
Weather is described as what temperatures, sunlight and rainfall conditions are in a few seasons, while climate is the longer term averages of the same items. In a visit with Elwynn and his protégé I commented that in the last two decades or so we had seen abnormally...
The March 29, 2022 article has been updated with additional information. We are slowly approaching the start to the 2022 growing season. Just a year ago many growers were being advised to sell new crop corn for around $3.50/Bu and beans for $8.75/Bu. Though the charts...
It is hard to believe that we are approaching the start to the 2022 growing season. Just a year ago many growers were being advised to sell new crop corn for around $3.50/Bu and beans for $8.75/Bu. Though the charts predicted that higher prices were coming, after six...