Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
May Drought Monitor
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
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
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
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)