Counties of: Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux
Recent warm weather is helping push the crops toward maturity, but occasional rainfall is keeping fields wet and slowing harvest progress. Warm and dry conditions are needed for a timely harvest. Frost is no longer a big concern in our area, but wind or hail can still cause major damage. Soybeans are especially vulnerable to hail at this stage.
Soybean harvest is just getting underway. Most fields in the Northwest region will be ready to harvest in the next two weeks. The few yield reports I’ve heard so far are a little better than expected. The pod counts are not impressive, but the bean size is large.
Corn has just recently reached full maturity (black layer), most is still around 30% moisture. Corn can dry a point per day with warm breezy conditions. As the days get shorter and average temperatures get colder drying slowsdown, so the weather over the next few weeks will determine how much the corn will dry in the field. We are noticing stock rot in many fields which will eventually lead to corn on the ground.
The grain markets continue to look for a bottom. The decline in the corn market has slowed down, but soybean prices plummeted last week. Corn and soybeans are at their lowest levels in more than four years.
Please click on the links on the right to view the past pdf’s of our Northwest Crop Conditions reports.
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