Change of weather this last week. We finally got some much-needed rain—4 to 5 inches or more in a lot of the area, along with wind and storms.…
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Keith Koerselman’s family farm in LeMars has been going strong for 150 years. He and wife Kristin, along with sons Keton and Kaleb, farm 500 a…
The week was very wet and stormy. Rainfall total was 4.4 inches over five days. On July 2 we received 1.8 in less than an hour. Other nearby a…
Wayne Koehler grows corn and soybeans in Charles City with his wife of 35 years, Lisa.
This week was a HOT one, but a good one. We ended up getting our second cut of alfalfa done, which was a positive. It ended up yielding about …
Clayton VanAernam is 17 and a junior at Audubon High School. He farms with his parents, Andy and Ashley, near Exira in Audubon County. They ha…
The crops in our area did well given the intense heat earlier last week. Some corn in our neighborhood is beginning to show tassels and should…
Eric Weuve is a farm business management specialist at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach based in Ames. He farms with his parents, …
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the primary story in east-central Iowa continues to be rainfall. We are currently considering ou…
Joe Sperfslage operates a family farm in Linn County near Coggon, growing 1,800 acres of corn, 800 acres of soybeans and 150 acres of wheat.
Had a wonderful 4th of July! We received 2 inches of rain for the week. I did find some rootworm feeding on a farm. I haven’t had too much of …
Matthew Bormann grows corn and soybeans near Algona, Iowa, in Kossuth County.Â
The heat has rolled in along with scattered storms across our area last week. We avoided the worst of the flooding but still received 2.4 inch…
Devin Davis’s work on his family farms began at age 10. He eventually returned to work there after attending the University of Northern Iowa, …
The corn has really grown over the last 10 days. First-planted fields are tasseling, and most of the rest of it is getting close. Soybeans hav…
Aaron and Chrissy Schnepel live and farm near Carson, Iowa, in Pottawattamie County, with their son, Brock, a high school sophomore, and daugh…
The worst of the heat wave seems to have broken and just in time! The corn is starting to tassel here, and I have seen minimal diseases while …
Elyssa McFarland is the sixth generation in her family to farm near Columbus Junction in Louisa County. She runs the farm with her husband Dav…
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