Thursday, May 24, 2012

May Drought Monitor

Drought monitor as expected -- reflecting spread of drought across Corn Belt & Plains. #pfnews http://t.co/7m99jwUs -- Julianne Johnston (@JuliJohnston)

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Record Breaking

Local news this morning: Record for most consecutive days (14) in May without rain set in eastern IA. Weird that 2 wks is a record. #pfnews -- Chip Flory (@ChipFlory)

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Scouting... from Corn & Soybean Digest

#Corn & #soybean seedling diseases are being reported in IA. Check your fields if you planted early this year. http://t.co/hJyaDXHL #grow12 -- Corn-Soybean Digest (@csdigest)


AQUAMAX

This is what a pioneer Aquamax plot looks like on fieldview... http://t.co/Aaqujxso -- Jerod McDaniel (@jerodmcdaniel)

Monday, May 21, 2012

Soybean planting ahead of last year

#Soybean planting is 76% complete, which compares to 35% complete at this time last year and 42% on avg. 35% of the crop is emerged #pfnews -- Meghan Pedersen (@MeghanPedersen)

US Corn Yield

Rabobank projects U.S. corn yield of 157 bpa, says USDA's 166 bpa is not a "reasonable base case for planning and marketing purposes" -- Ian Berry (@enberry)

2012 Crop Tour Planning Meeting

Scheduled for 7:30 PM, Wed., May 23, 2012 at Henderson Event Center. Please attend if you're interested in helping plan this year's event.

Special Breed

Today, we salute the farm wives and moms who are the backbone of U.S. agriculture. http://t.co/ASzZoykA -- BEEF Magazine (@BEEFMagazine)

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Corn Crop Ratings

Tomorrow afternoon's first corn crop ratings of the season will be critical for setting the tone for new-crop prices $ZC_F #Farm -- Arlan Suderman (@ArlanFF101)

Start of a weather market?

Warm and dry boosting markets. Heard all weekend "we need rain bad" and "not enough moisture to even get things up". Getting interesting. -- Jason Britt (@jasonlbritt)