Some producers have corn 4 feet high and tasseling. In addition Japanese beetles and rootworm beetles were feeding heavily on the silks. It is still too early to determine pollination but it appears pollination will not be affected by the dry conditions at this point. Third cutting of alfalfa was sparse and fourth cutting is getting much pressure from potato leaf hoppers. So far alfalfa seems to be growing well under these dry conditions.
Soybeans are pretty much fully podded and starting to fill the pod.
We need rain soon to assist pod-fill. Also, weeds are coming back and some producers will need to apply additional herbicides to manage them or they may wait and use a Roundup preharvest application. Pastures are greening and already some have allowed animals back into them. This is not a good idea however, it would have been better to wait until the pasture fully recovered before letting animals out. Much needed rainfall came to our area July 22-24.