The percentage of acres planted increased significantly across Latham Country during the past seven days. We’re hopeful that farmers in our northernmost and southernmost regions will have a chance to finish soon.
Those seeds that were placed in the ground earlier this spring have emerged, and we’re seeing good stands. Thanks to recent high temperatures and adequate moistures in our home area, the crops are really growing quickly.
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Corn: It was a rainy week for the most part. Corn continues to progress with most of the acres in the V3-V4 stage. Stands continue to look good throughout the area. The next 7 days promises to be much warmer, so rapid growth will make up for a late start. LH 5426VT3 Pro is off to an especially good start in the area and continues looks to be a winner this year.
Soybeans: There are still a few acres of soybeans yet to be planted but, for the most part, planting is complete here. Timely rains and good ground conditions have allowed for good stands and emergence. There have been a few reports of a narrow band of hail in the northern part of this region, so a few growers scrambling to replant some acres. Scouting for Bean Leaf Beetle on soybeans should continue during the next weeks.
North Central Iowa appears to be in the “garden spot” for both corn and beans. Warmer weather and some scattered showers helped all crops make sizable gains in the past week. Corn planting is 100% complete and only a handful of bean acres are potentially still need to be planted. Many farmers have made their first post-emergence spraying pass, and conditions for early side dressing have also been excellent. The biggest challenge in our region has been high winds that prevailed for most of the week. Subsoil moisture levels are excellent and with higher temperatures in the forecast we should see excellent growing conditions from the much needed heat units. Most area corn is in the V2-V5 stage, with beans from emergence to VC levels.
Conditions in southern Minnesota are finally improving! Corn acres have been planted for the most part, and a few early hybrids were planted for the wet conditions. Soybeans are about 80 percent to 95 percent planted. Once you pass the Twin Cities, you start seeing some 83-day corn being planted. Some seeds are even turning rotten from the saturated soils. For an average for Minnesota, planting continues to progress and is close to being completed. It’s hard to tell how the crops will fare from the wet soil conditions.
Fields are looking great! Corn is ranging between V3 to V5 stages, while soybeans are looking like VE to V1. You can row about all of the soybeans in the area. Most first round post-emergence spraying is complete, which is cleaning up the fields. There is a little rain in the forecast for later this week and for the weekend. Rainfall will be welcome here after several days of 90-plus degree weather.
Southwest Wisconsin has 5-collar corn. Latham’s LH 5426 VT3Pro is shinning. Pre-emerge and first pass Roundup® are done for both corn and soybeans. First crop alfalfa has been harvested, and fertilizer is being applied.
Corn and soybeans have been coming along great with the warm, sunny days we have had. First crop alfalfa is complete.
Crops look great in northwest Iowa. Everything is really growing well with all the heat we’ve had recently. Soybeans are in first and second tri-foliates. Spraying has been going well, although wind guests of 25- to 30-miles per hour halted progress on Tuesday. Hay is just starting to bloom, so first cutting will begin.
This year’s planting will be finished about 30 days later than past years due to extremely wet conditions. Flooding has taken some acres out of production completely for this year. Corn planting will be complete by the end of this week as long as the weather holds. Most corn in my area is in the V1 to V3 stages with some replanting being done. Soybean planting is 80% done and should be 100% complete within the next 10 days. Spraying is coming along.
The weather has really turned around this last week with six straight days of sunshine and a couple of 80-degree days. We need this drying weather! The Memorial weekend storms left much of the ground in the area under water again. By Thursday, I got the water pumped off our research plot.
The May 31 report by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service shows that statewide 74% of the corn has been planted compared to 49% a week ago with 30% of the corn emerged. Compare those numbers to the five year average of 91% planted with 61% emerged and you can see the struggle farmers have been through this year. In the next Monday’s report, I don’t expect to see much more corn but a much higher percentage of the crop should be emerging.
Soybean planting is very similar with 29% of the beans planted and only 1% emerged compared to the five year average of 74% and 28% respectively. With the better field conditions coming later in the week, I would expect planting acres to increase dramatically in the next couple of reports.
Seed treatments look more important than ever with these early season growing conditions and should pay dividends this harvest. Spraying is also underway as weeds never seem to take a vacation. This is a very busy time of year. Remember to work safely!
Rain and wet conditions have kept us out of the fields for two weeks. Southeast Iowa and northeast Missouri is 90- to 95% done with corn planting and seedlings have 3 to 4 leaves. Soybean planting is 55 to 60 percent complete, but we’re not yet seeing much emergence.
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