Things are drying. One of my neighbors checked his corn and it tested at 21% moisture. We are still going hard at seeding cover crops. Other t…
We got a half inch (Thursday night) of rain, so we are starting to get some rain. It’s not going to help our crop any, but we have a long way …
We had some rain this past week, but it is probably too late to help the crop at this point. It may help some of the soybeans, but some of the…
Things are dry. We got about a tenth of an inch of rain on Friday night. The crop is starting to show the strain this week. The corn is starti…
Things are still looking OK, considering that we had no rain. I dug up some corn roots and they go deep. We're definitely going to have a crop…
We had about a half inch of rain. There was another shower that dropped about an inch and a half at one end of the county and about a tenth at…
We had an inch of rain Friday night. That helped things stay alive after last week's heat. I know I didn't want to work outside in the heat la…
Last week we sprayed fungicide on corn. A lot of the fields still look pretty decent, but a couple of cornfields are showing rolled up leaves.…
We're getting ready to spray fungicides on corn. We sprayed the beans last week. We also had to spray for corn in the beans, which isn't a sur…
Tim Bardole farms near Rippey with his father, Roy; his brother, Pete; and his son, Schyler. A former president of the Iowa Soybean Associatio…
We had 2 inches of rain last week and that made the crops look a lot better. Some people not too far away from us had hail. We were lucky enou…
We got a little rain on Tuesday (June 29), but it was spotty. We had 0.2 inches at our house. About four miles southeast of us they had 4.5 in…
We got a short half inch of rain over the past week and it all came about a tenth and a half at a time. The crops are still looking good, and …
We sprayed Liberty on some beans last week. We also got about an inch of rain Saturday night, and the corn appreciated it. The leaves finally …
It is hot and dry. It got dark and windy late last week and lightning killed one of our calves, but we only got about a tenth of an inch of ra…
It is really hot and dry and it is starting to look that way in the field. We can handle hot and we can handle dry this time of year but it is…
We got a little spraying done. There is a blanket of corn coming in on soybean fields, thanks to last year's derecho. The corn is looking good…
It was dreary most of the week here with cloudy weather. Thursday night we got an inch of rain. It wasn't a drought-buster, but it helped. Eve…
We finally got our last field of beans planted last week. We had three rain events last week, but all totaled it didn’t make half an inch. We …
The corn planting is pretty much done around here and the majority of the beans are done. We have one field of seed beans left to plant. A lot…
We got the corn done last week, and we are about half done with the beans. Pretty much all the corn is planted around here and probably three-…
We've got about two-thirds of our corn planted. Around here maybe half the corn is planted and a few beans have gone in the ground. We had a l…
A few people started planting last week. We put about 70 acres of seed in the ground, just enough to make sure everything is working right. Us…
We had 0.6 inches of rain at our place last week. Some places got a little more. We are just getting back to putting anhydrous on fields. I sa…
We were just getting ready to do some custom strip-tilling and we blew a hydraulic line, so that delayed things a bit. There are anhydrous rig…
Tim Bardole farms near Rippey with his father, Roy; his brother, Pete; and his son, Schyler. A former president of the Iowa Soybean Associatio…