by Bob Streit | Jun 21, 2018 | Crop Watch
Just as many farmers in central and north central Iowa watch the calendar roll past June 10 and believed they could clean up their planters and back them into the shed for the off season. Since then scattered and intense storm lines marched across the regions and only...
by Bob Streit | Jun 14, 2018 | Crop Watch
The early part of the growing season is getting closer to ending for the growers in central and southern Iowa. Though there is no clear definition of what it the early part of the season, it can be considered the time after planting to when tractor traffic through the...
by Bob Streit | Jun 7, 2018 | Crop Watch
June is here and what a month it has been so far. While we had to endure the coldest and snowiest April on record this spring, the month of May surprised us as being one of the warmest on record for many locations in the Midwest. Then beginning two weeks ago the blast...
by Bob Streit | May 31, 2018 | Crop Watch
As we move into the lasts few days of May it might be good to look around and pass judgment on how the season has done so far. Considering that our last big snow of 12” fell only about five weeks ago farmers have made remarkable progress. Everyone was putting in very...
by Bob Streit | May 25, 2018 | Crop Watch
Just as one of Clint Eastwood’s best cowboy movies was called ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, we could call this spring and the planting season so far “The good, The Bad and The Ugly”. There is no average, just a wide spread in how the crops look as of May 20th...
