Wet week around here. Rained every day and it looks like next week will be more of the same. Not much harvesting will get done in September—so…
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Crops maturing fast. Silage will wrap up next week and guys will get started on high-moisture corn for feed. Seeing a wide variation in yields…
It was another wet week with rain four days and nights out of the seven. Total rainfall was 2.5 inches. The soybeans continue to change color …
The crops are quickly advancing towards maturity. Corn silage chopping began last week. Silage appraisals are showing good yields. Some corn f…
We have had enough rain for the fall. That’s what you’ll find most farmers talking about throughout Audubon. We have had 5.5 inches so far in …
This week was a soaker. We got right at 5.5 inches of rain at our place. We got lucky and finished chopping right before the rain began. Corn …
A very wet week. We received right at 3 inches over the course of the week, missing all big rains. It will take a few days to dry out. The soy…
What a change in the last few days. We started cooling down into the 50s at night. Soybeans continue to mature with noticeable yellow appearin…
If one word could summarize the past week, and really the entire growing season, it would be ‘wet.’ Waterways have been running out of their b…
Chopping season is well underway in east-central Iowa, and some of the corn fields damaged by the August hailstorm are being harvested. Soybea…
For the week we got an inch of rain. The winter wheat cover crop that was seeded aerially into corn three weeks ago is growing great thanks to…
It was a great week on the farm with soybeans maturing slower than last year, and we're estimating we're still two to three weeks out before h…
Harvest progress in our area is at zero. Most of the crops are ready to combine, however we have been hit with storm after storm all week. Thi…
It was a quiet week here for us. Rain early in the week dropped 3.5 to 5 inches across the area, and that has been keeping us from testing the…
It’s been raining pretty much all week. Hasn’t been large amounts, just enough to keep things wet. We went out and spread some rye on where we…
A lot has happened in the last week. We got about 3.5 inches of rain on Tuesday night which messed up chopping for a few days. We thought we w…
We had a couple of inches of rain over the weekend, but it looks like a few folks have tried taking out some corn to the south. The corn is de…
Beans have really started to turn in our area in the last week, and the corn is drying down very fast compared to prior years. The custom sila…