by Bob Streit | Jul 23, 2018 | Crop Watch
Late July is here and the summer seems to be flying by. Not having any spring produced a time crunch with all the early field work. Then the very warm May and first half of June sped corn growth so corn went from emerging to showing tassels in weeks shorter than...
by Bob Streit | Jul 17, 2018 | Crop Watch
July 15th arrived with prediction for the state and the weekend for flash flooding in many areas for the entire weekend. That did not materialize and for that we are thankful. Instead we had a Saturday which was cool and cloudy for the first part of the day, followed...
by Bob Streit | Jul 9, 2018 | Crop Watch
After a week that was interrupted by the 4th of July holiday and rain again in the Northwest part of the state growers in the state get another chance to try to get things back to normal. Seven days ago we woke up after the Des Moines area received 5 to 10 inches of...
by Bob Streit | Jul 5, 2018 | Crop Watch
After one of the most severe monsoon seasons in recent years the farming natives in the northwest 3/4th of Iowa have to be wondering what is next in store for them. About three weeks ago the noted, and often deadly accurate climatologist that most people have never...
by Bob Streit | Jun 28, 2018 | Crop Watch
As we now move into the last week of June and get ready for the important cropping month of July it might be good to look around and make comments on how things have gone so far. So what might different people in different states say? In northern and many parts of...
