You would be hard pressed to find any bean fields left around here. Everyone is going hot and heavy on corn now. The corn is drying pretty slo…
There aren’t a lot of beans left. We finished up Saturday night (Oct. 9). I would say beans are 85 to 90% done here. Corn harvest is moving al…
We were rolling right along until we got some rain late last week. Judging by the weather forecast, I would guess there won’t be many beans le…
Bean harvest is in full swing in this area. Beans are plenty dry. Most have been pleasantly surprised with yield numbers. The hot weather the …
Bean harvest picked up as last week moved along. There was another round of hail early last week that hit the same area from three weeks ago. …
Things are pretty good here. A small amount of beans have been harvested. I’m hearing yields from the low 50s to the low 60s. If it stays dry,…
We’ve had some rain this week, but the storm Monday night (Aug. 30) brought some wind damage. There is a good swatch from Ida Grove toward Vai…
We finally caught some rain, with 1.25 to 2 inches in the area. It’s not going to add any beans, but we won’t lose any either. More and more s…
Things have changed a lot in the last week. Some corn is starting to lose its bottom leaves and change color. We are seeing a lot of SDS and w…
We definitely need rain to finish this crop out. Things are looking good otherwise.
We probably had three- to four-tenths of an inch of rain over the weekend, with more in other areas. Things are still looking pretty good, but…
Things are moving along. We had hardly any rain here last week, but to the south they had half an inch or more. Crops look good considering ho…
The crops don’t look too bad, but we could use another drink of water. This hot week will put the crops to the test. A lot of aerial spraying …
The crops don’t look too bad. Most of the corn is tasseled. A lot of crop dusters have been out over the past week. There have been some corn …
Brian Sieren and his wife, Mindi, farm near Schleswig in Crawford County. They grow corn and soybeans, and also have some show pigs.
We had anywhere from three-tenths to 4 inches of rain in our area over the weekend. I had 2.3 inches at my place, but Battle Creek only had th…
It just stays hot and dry, with temperatures going up even more over the weekend. We are seeing a lot of soybean fields starting to curl. We a…
We got some beneficial rain last week. Beans are finally starting to look like beans again. We did not have any storm damage here, but they di…
They had substantial hail damage in the Odebolt and Arthur areas. There isn’t much left. We had two-tenths of an inch of rain last week, and i…
It is hot and dry. We got about 0.2 inches of rain at my place, but we need quite a bit more. There are a fair amount of corn leaves rolling i…
The crop looks pretty good considering the high temperatures and lack of moisture. We will probably see some stress this week if the dry forec…
We had 0.85 inches of rain at my place, and anywhere from a half inch to 1.5 inches in the area. Crops are looking very good. There was some s…
We didn’t have a terrible amount of rain last week, maybe a half inch to an inch. A lot of guys are starting to spray post. The rain has the b…
We got a sprinkle of rain here, while around Denison they had three- to four-tenths over the weekend. Pretty much all the crop is in the groun…
There is not much left to plant. A lot of corn is up, and some soybeans have also emerged. We had about a half-inch of rain Saturday night, gi…
We had 1.5 inches Sunday and early Monday morning. About 1.1 inches of that came pretty hard, but I don’t see much that is washed out. We defi…
We finished planting corn yesterday (April 25), and now we are switching over to beans today. A lot of crop went in the ground late last week …