Northwest Iowa Crop Conditions

Crop Conditions

Northwest of Storm Lake

Counties of: Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux

Past Weeks Rainfall: 0 to .1 inches
Soil Moisture: Above average, still frost in ground
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Corn

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Soybean

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Corn Market

Current Prices: $3.45 /bu
Fall Prices: $3.52/bu
Past Weeks Trend: 9 cents higher for the week

Soybean Market

Current Prices: $7.99/bu
Fall Prices: $8.33/bu
Past Weeks Trend: 3 cents higher for the week

Comments:

Chad Husman AFM

Heavy snow cover going into March combined with rain and warming weather causing wide spread flooding in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The worst hit areas are southwest of our region. The Big Sioux and Little Sioux Rivers in NW Iowa had major flooding, those areas are improving daily.Smaller drain ages and low-lying farms in this area also had flooding, but that didn’t last long. There were damages to some roads, bridges and erosion problems where water was running. Farmland erosion was limited because of the frozen soil and crop residue in most situations.

More fertilizer applications and other fieldwork passes are needed to do this spring than usual because little of this was done last fall with all the wet weather and early freeze. It’s too early to say we are expecting planning delays, there is still plenty of time for field conditions to improve over the next three weeks for corn planting. We do expect to have a very busy spring with likely small windows of opportunity, so having a solid plan farm ahead of time will be very important. The extended weather forecast is mostly favorable for now.

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