Corn harvest is underway, with excellent quality and dry moistures. Corn expectations at best are for average yields from the region. Wheat plantings continue as beans come out of the field. Earliest planted wheat is at the 3 leaf stage, and many stands are spotty due to lack of moisture in eroded areas of the field. If current weather patterns hold, barley yellow dwarf may become an issue in this early wheat.
Pasture is nonexistent.
Again this year, more bean straw is being baled to feed livestock. Above normal temperatures all week. Scattered showers across the area with rainfall amounts between 10-25 mm. Harvest three quarters complete with averages meaningless. Some alfalfa now in flower.