by Bob Streit | May 17, 2018 | Crop Watch
Spring is supposed to be marching along with field work and planting finishing up in Iowa while farmers in the states to the north being at least half finished. Instead we are now in a situation where wet conditions and cooler weather are dominant factors for us in...
by Bob Streit | May 10, 2018 | Crop Watch
With the arrival of May, we are finally getting the 70+ temperatures. The landscape across the Midwest has turned a gorgeous green as it typically does in late spring. In response to the question last week of ‘where were the April showers?’ many parts of the state...
by Bob Streit | May 3, 2018 | Crop Watch
May is here already and with it seem to be warmer temperatures. Wow, what a turn around. Less than two weeks ago parts of northern Iowa and southern MN were receiving as much as twelve inches of new snow, and that was on top of what was already on the ground. South...
by Bob Streit | Apr 26, 2018 | Crop Watch
It finally seems that the winter season is over with. Most or all of the snow has melted in northern Iowa, so the warmth of the sun can focus on warming the soil up to the point where corn or soybean seed can germinate. In looking at the date on the calendar the...
by Bob Streit | Apr 18, 2018 | Crop Watch
Receiving another batch of snow with accompanying cold Canadian air across the upper Midwest the middle part of April to delay field work for another week is not what we were hoping for. Xanto, this weekend’s storm followed Wilbur, last week’s storm, were hopefully...
