by Bob Streit | Oct 17, 2018 | Crop Watch
It is now mid-October and winter conditions with snow have arrived in parts of the mountain and Great Plain west and the Northern Cornbelt states. In the years since 2009 we typically have wrapped up half or more of the bean harvest and often 50% of the corn by late...
by Bob Streit | Oct 9, 2018 | Crop Watch
What is worse than the satisfying task of working long hours under sunny skies and clear dark night skies harvesting the crops that we spent since last October planning for and since spring planting, spraying and nuturing thru to maturity? It would have to be sitting...
by Bob Streit | Oct 4, 2018 | Crop Watch
September 2018 is now in the rear view mirror and we now enter that last quarter of the year. So far everything weather wise has been one of extremes. It seems very strange to see with farmers in northern or NW Iowa and their biggest challenge has been coping with the...
by Bob Streit | Sep 28, 2018 | Crop Watch
With harvest time approaching everyone connected to agriculture has to be hoping that it quits raining shortly and we have a perfect month of 65 to 75 degree weather. There will be no more weather fronts that drop 4 to 10 inches of rain across the northern one third...
by Bob Streit | Sep 19, 2018 | Crop Watch
It is Sunday night and there was harvest activity in the neighborhood with both corn and soybeans being harvested. Luckily we didn’t have the rush to harvest like the poor souls down in the Carolinas did as hurricane Florence bore down on those two states. I have not...
