by Bob Streit | Sep 1, 2017 | Crop Watch
Here we are at the end of August and there is about a month to month and a half of the growing season yet. What a strange roller coaster ride it has been. Temps in February were warm enough to people were out in their shirt sleeves. April and May were so incredible...
by Bob Streit | Aug 20, 2017 | Crop Watch
So Monday is the day of the long predicted eclipse. Will it be like the famous comet, Kahoutek, which our physics professor spent hours telling us about how it would light up the sky and set the standards for celestial events? I can’t remember whether we cared or...
by Bob Streit | Aug 15, 2017 | Crop Watch
The midpoint of the month of August is here and still most growers in the southwest 3/4s of the state are hoping for their first big rain since May or June. Sadly in many areas that damage to the corn is already done and no amount of rain will replace the loss to the...
by Bob Streit | Aug 11, 2017 | Crop Watch
It’s another week into the grain fill period and for about 75% of the farmers in Iowa the situation gets worse. We and the crops waited and waited and waited hoping for a major front to drop enough moisture on the ground with the 2” wide cracks so that the moisture...
by Bob Streit | Aug 4, 2017 | Crop Watch
As we and our crops enter the month of August, when the majority of the grain fill is supposed to occur, and in the southwest 75 percent of the state, most of the enthusiasm about the last part of the growing season and the upcoming harvest is gone. Sixty days with...
