Counties of: Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux
Weather has turned hot and dry, which is exactly what we needed during the last half of May to finish up planting and help push crop emergence. We went from one extreme to another, now it’s quickly getting to the point where rain is needed. Subsoil moisture levels are still good, but the young crops don’t yet have deep roots yet.
Corn is generally in good shape and starting to grow quickly. If the hot dry weather lasts another week or so without rain, we will start to see stress. The early planted corn may be able to handle it better because of a larger root system, but recent planted corn or places with compaction issues will suffer without rain.
Most soybeans are planted and emerged, but they are small for this time of year. The soybeans planted mid-May just before the cool wet period struggled to emerge. Some fields need to be replanted because of poor stands.When the weather turned hot and dry many fields formed a hard crust layer that made it tough for soybeans to emerge. The soybeans planted more recently will have quick emergence as long as there’s enough moisture to get started. Soybeans planted into dry dirt will do nothing until we get a rain.
Please click on the links on the right to view the past pdf’s of our Northwest Crop Conditions reports.
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