It was a hot week with no rain. This was just about the first week since early June that we didn't get any precipitation. Everything still loo…
We had between 0.2 and 0.5 inches of rain midweek. The crops are looking good. We are spraying fungicides on the corn and the beans right now.…
Warren Bachman grows corn and soybeans on his farm near Osceola in South Central Iowa. He uses cover crops and terraces on his farm.
We had a wet week. Some of our farm had up to 5 inches of rain. The crop looks really good, probably the best we have ever had. The corn is pr…
We had anywhere from 0.1 to 0.5 inches of rain on Tuesday (June 29) and another 0.1 to 0.9 inches on Wednesday (June 30). We're in great shape…
We had rain come through on the 24th and got anywhere from 1.4 to 3 inches of rain. Then we had another one- to three-tenths two days later. T…
We had rain last week. On Tuesday we had 0.6 inches on our westernmost farm and 0.1 inches where we live and nothing further east. On Thursday…
We need rain. Part of our ground got 0.6 inches of rain last week, but most of it got a tenth or less. The no-till corn is improving after a r…
A lot of hay was made last week and there was some re-planting done in the area. There are a lot of poor stands and some fields that don't loo…
We had anywhere from 0.2 to 0.4 inches of rain on Thursday and it turned cold after that. We have had too much cool, rainy weather lately and …
I think it rained about every day last week. Most of the rains were small, a tenth or two, but we got a total of 1 to 2 inches over the week. …
I’ve been hauling grain all week — selling high-priced beans. Most of the corn is up and some of the beans are up. We’ve been done planting fo…
We had anywhere from an inch to 2.2 inches of rain over the weekend and about a tenth or two at the start of last week. We finished planting b…
We're done with corn, and we're down to about 140 acres of beans to plant. We had a little rain shower last Wednesday, anywhere from 0.2 to 0.…
We are planting corn. Some people around here haven't planted anything. Others planted beans before corn and are up to 80% done with the beans…
We had between one and three-tenths of an inch of rain Friday. A few guys have planted some beans in the area but we haven't started yet. We'r…
The first part of last week was productive, but then we had a hard 3 inches of rain on Wednesday afternoon, so that took everyone out of the f…
I am hauling seed beans from Des Moines. There is a little bit of anhydrous going on fields in the area. Some dry fertilizer is also being app…
Warren Bachman grows corn and soybeans on his farm near Osceola in South Central Iowa. He uses cover crops and terraces on his farm. He is als…