by Bob Streit | May 19, 2017 | Crop Watch
Spring continues to drag on and the rate and pace of corn and bean planting varies widely across the state and the Midwest. In the last few days I have had the chance to view the crop and pace of planting in an area from extreme northwest Iowa down to St Louis. Much...
by Bob Streit | May 10, 2017 | Crop Watch
Already this growing season is looking like one that will have a multitude of challenges. Besides the economic issues, the weather, crop diseases and weeds are high on the list of things that will need lots of attention and thought. A week ago I mentioned that trying...
by Bob Streit | May 5, 2017 | Crop Watch
A few weather prognosticators correctly predicted the spring of 2017 was going to be on the cool and wet side. How we wish they were not so correct. We and our machinery are sitting on the sidelines looking at the fields that received a major drenching over the...
by Bob Streit | Apr 28, 2017 | Crop Watch
Now in the last week of April we all have to cross our fingers and hope that no major rain front crosses the Midwest’s cropping area. Too much rests on each grower getting the chance to get their corn crop in the ground in the next two to three weeks. When each...
by Bob Streit | Apr 21, 2017 | Crop Watch
Another week later and in much of Iowa things are nearly at a standstill. After a late winter season where February weather was warm and dry the climate has changed to cooler and wetter. Around here a few fellows have been able to work some of the better tiled fields...
