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 out scouting. We ran irrigators a bit last week but got about half an inch of rain on Friday night so we didn’t have to run them over the weekend. Driving around the area, I noticed more nitrogen loss showing up in the corn on more poorly drained fields, but overall the corn crop looks decent. The beans have really come along in the last 10 days. They are fully canopied and flowering like crazy! I noticed some isolated damage from insect feeding — mostly Japanese beetles.