The week of cool temperatures has not been helpful. Low temperature on May 20 was 38 degrees. Many no-till soybean fields continue to struggle with emergence. The forecast for a week of consistently warm temperatures should get the beans out of the ground if they are still viable. This past …
Wayne Koehler grows corn and soybeans in Charles City with his wife of 35 years, Lisa.
The warmer temperatures really helped the emergence of the later-planted corn and soybeans. Some replanting or interseeding of early-planted soybeans was done last week. The crop insurance adjuster noted several replant claims of both soybeans and corn around the area. Field borders are show…
Most of the corn and soybean planting in my area was completed last week. The early-planted corn is emerging. Too many cold days with strong winds and low humidity after the last rain on April 27 has made it difficult for some early-planted soybeans that are struggling to push through cruste…
We received 0.5 inch of rain on April 27 followed by very cool temps for most of the week. The morning of May 2 the low temperature was 31 degrees with light frost. The planters were running again by Saturday, and a lot of corn got planted over the weekend. Some farmers will be finishing cor…
The week of April 20 was a productive week for those that chose to plant in my area. Some farmers were very aggressive getting corn planted while others chose to wait. There were some soybeans planted as well. Pre-emerge spraying and burn down for soybeans was done as the temperatures warmed…
The oats were seeded on March 31 and emerged April 14. Nice growth last week before receiving a light frost on April 20. Last week was an active weather week with some large hail and heavy rain. Our farms were spared from the hail, and rainfall totals for the week ranged from 0.2 to 0.8 inch…
Wayne Koehler grows corn and soybeans in Charles City with his wife of 35 years, Lisa.
Wayne Koehler grows corn and soybeans in Charles City with his wife of 35 years, Lisa. He has also been raising oats, and this year will be growing 65 acres of food-grade oats after buying into a farmer-owned oat milling plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota. “We look forward to that challenge,” he…
Finished up with corn harvest last week. It was a bit of a limp to the finish as the shaker frame in our combine broke at the side rail. So, that will be a major repair this offseason. Overall corn ended up 5-10% over average for us, which we were happy with. It seems like every year over th…
Corn harvest is finishing up in the area. I’ll hopefully be done by the end of the week. Lots of tillage and baling being done. I saw some really good yields out of the late-maturity corn hybrids this year, probably 10-15% above average. Moisture stayed in the 18-20% range. Looking forward t…
We had another good week of progress. I’m just starting to see some guys get finished up in the area, though there’s still plenty of corn to be picked. I’ve probably got a week to week and a half left depending on the rain. Mid- and late-maturities are still testing 17-19%. Yields are variab…
We had 1.3 inches of rain this week with some reports in the area of 2-plus inches. It was great to get a little time with family while we waited to dry out. I’m about a third done on corn, still finding some dry enough to go straight into the bin. In the later maturities, moisture bumps up …
If you look hard enough you can still find a few bean fields that need to be taken out, but most finished up this past week. We’re 25% finished with corn. Yields have been variable, but there’s a lot of field averages 15-20 bushels above average (with one-pass fungicide). I’ve heard reports …
We got 0.7 of an inch of rain overnight, bringing a welcome break after a good run on beans. We've got a day or two left to get finished up. This area is probably 80-90% done on beans. Yields were average this year. Moistures have been around 11-12% in the mornings, 8-9% by the end of the da…
I have made good progress on getting ready for harvest this week. We got through most of the equipment without major issues. I hand checked an early-planted field this morning and it tested 20%, so I imagine we’ll try to go out soon, weather permitting. Not many combines going in the neighbo…
I have made good progress on getting ready for harvest this week. We got through most of the equipment without major issues. I still need to get through the bin site but hand checked an early-planted field this morning and it tested 20%, so I imagine we’ll try to go out soon, weather permitt…
As the last of the old crop got hauled in we switched our focus to maintenance on harvest equipment. Thankfully the biggest surprise so far has been a mouse getting hungry on a combine fuel gauge wire. If only all fixes were that easy. Heard of multiple people getting ready to chop silage la…
We had 0.2 of an inch of rain this week. It’s been probably our best weather week of the summer — perfect for cleaning out bins and working outside. I’m getting down to the last of old-crop corn. I’ve got one field showing the effects of rust. Most of that will be our first field to harvest.…
The biggest thing to happen, we had a big rain Monday last week (Aug. 18) — 3 inches here at home and 20 miles north of us probably had about 6-8 inches which caused major local highways to shut down for about a half day. I’m keeping up with mowing. I notice southern rust showing up on the o…
Waking up to a flash flood warning this morning. Our area had 2-4 inches of rain overnight with more on the way this morning. Southern rust has pushed its way into the area but is mostly showing on the lower half of the plant. I heard of some neighbors putting in drone orders to address it o…
Another inch of rain measured in the gauge over the weekend. Some parts of northeast Iowa got multiple inches. Fungicide applications got buttoned up last week for us. The window of blissful ignorance is ending on soybean weed control this season. You can find some broadleaves starting to po…
We got another 4 inches of rain last week. The ground is finally starting to dry out in the area again. I’m thankful that there isn’t more flat corn after the winds that came with the rain. Plenty of trees and limbs came down in the area. Bremer County Fair was dealing with it all last week …
We got 4 inches of rain last week plus another 1.2 inches last night with some wind that tangled the bean canopy. Still no hail, thankfully. It was just getting dry enough for the ground rigs to get back in, so I'm betting a lot of the fungicide left to do will have to be applied aerially. I…
We got 1.7 inches of rain here last Friday night. Thankfully I had about two-thirds of my bean acres sprayed for fungicide. The rest might have to go on aerially with the forecast this week. Looks like guys who are trying to get back out may be able to do that today or tomorrow on their sand…
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