New Crop Tour '12 Grower Host Added

Thank you Sean Dolan- Masonville, IA for hosting a stop on Crop Tour '12!

New Crop Tour '12 Grower Host Added

Thank you Rick Johnson- Independence, IA for hosting a stop on Crop Tour '12!

Iowa Crop Scouting Services

New Crop Tour '12 Grower Host Added

Thank you Jerry Slattery- Winthrop, IA for hosting a stop on Crop Tour '12!

Rainfall Report- Blackhawk County, IA

From Scott Beenken- Buckingham, IA

Rainfall Report- Buchanan County, IA

 2.3 inches at dads place! Like dad said that rain came at the last minute of the last day for the corn crop!...from Jason Orr- Rowley, IA

Iowa Soil Testing Services

New Crop Tour '12 Grower Host Added

Thank you Mark Dolan- Buchanan County, IA for hosting a stop on Crop Tour '12!

Pistol Packing Opossum- Afton, IA

Check it out at TJ's Bar in Afton, IA!

County Fair Highlights- Mittag Show Cattle

Res Supreme Feeder Heifer at union County Fair raised and shown by Mittag Show Cattle

Grand Champion Feeder Steer at Union County Fair raised and shown by Mittag Show Cattle

Supreme Champion Heifer at Adair County Fair shown by Tess Mittag purchased from Matt Lautner sired by Monopoly

Sent in by Craig Mittag- Prescott, IA

Iowa Crop Scouting Services

New Crop Tour 2012 Sponsor Added

Sales Consultant- Erin Burmeister 319-327-0765

Erin will have a booth display at the Crop Tour's evenings activities beginning at

5pm on August 24, 2012. Bags will be available for sale as well as open dates for 

late summer and fall party bookings.

From Jason Orr- Buchanan County, IA

Walked through several fields today. The ear count is there and there is hope where the corn "looks" good. We just need some rains to keep feeding what is there. Low spots in the fields can be written off. Any ears that survive in them are a gift. The black spots on those ears are were I wrote what farm they came from. Not aborted kernels...... my mom wanted me to tell you that!! Lol

New Crop Tour '12 Grower Host Added

Thank you Bowden Investment- Winthrop, IA for hosting a stop on Crop Tour '12!

Submit Your County Fair Highlights Today!

Email prburmeister@gmail.com or text 319-327-0806

Crop Tour '12 Invites Available

Call Pete - 319-327-0806 if you'd like a handful of 

Crop Tour '12 Invites to pass out to your customers or

hang in your place of business!

Join these Sponsors in Support of Crop Tour '12

 

 

 



Bob Hanson- Seed Sales Professional, Vinton, IA



Sales Consultant- Erin Burmeister 319-327-0765

Still holding out hope- 2012 crop!

Scott Hingtgen weighs in from Jackson County, IA

4-H Achievements- Luke Lawless

Wanted to let you know how Luke did at the

2012 Buchanan County Fair!

Luke and Missy: Champion Breeding Heifer- Crossbred Class 2
Luke and Missy: Reserve Champion Jr. Beef Showmanship

Luke and Fredo: 5th place Overall Rate of Gain 3.502 per day

Going to State Fair: Photography: Picture of Field Corn and Share the Fun Skit

What a great week at the FAIR! Luke said one of the BEST times of his life!

Sent in by Luke's Mom- TJ Lawless

Weekly Crop Conditions Update

East Central Iowa: went to Wisconsin dells,wed.-friday night. they got up to 2" of rain from what I heard Wednesday night,problem is........it was to late for almost all of the corn that I seen all the way up from Dubuque,Iowa(in my opinion). I'm sure it helped the hay and some of the beans. sounds like we missed it here again and 15 miles south got up to an 1",in isolated spots. we were blessed earlier to get rains to keep us holding on to something,but have now missed 3 or 4 rain events since June 29th. still wouldn't trade with corn north and east of me.just like most of us this year,it is kind of a numbing feeling to not be able to do something to stop the bleeding! still holding out hope,most of the fields are still green around here,except for the obvious corn field that is close to gone.

Sent in by Scott Hingtgen- Jackson County, IA

Wild Boar Tag Filled- Benton County, IA

Photo by County Sniper- Garrett Wittmer, Vinton, IA

Insurance Adjuster Coverage

5000--1200. There are 5,000 crop insurance adjusters in US. (Nat. Crop Ins. Services) Each can cover 1,200 acres a day. (Insurance Journal) -- Max Armstrong (@maxarmstrong)

New Crop Tour '12 Grower Host Added

Thank you Doug & Neal Rathbun- Independence, IA for hosting a stop on

Crop Tour '12!

New Crop Tour '12 Grower Host Added

Thank you Jim, Janet, Jason & Megan Orr- Rowley, IA for hosting a stop on 
Crop Tour '12!

New Crop Tour '12 Grower Host Added

Thank you Kane Farms- Fairbank, IA for hosting a stop on Crop Tour '12!

Spider Mite Information

Pete,

Here is a link to a good article from the Pioneer website regarding Spider Mites.  I have been in quite a few bean fields this week and I have been able to find a few spider mites in pretty much every field.  There is not a lot of damage showing up in many fields yet, but they are definitely there and if this hot, dry weather continues( and it looks like it is going to) we could start to see a lot of fields showing the effects. 

I would not be surprised to see many, if not most, soybean fields needing to be sprayed in the next week or so. Hopefully we get some rain and it knocks them back so we don’t have to spray. We will have to wait and see what happens. I will try and update you early next week on what we are seeing in our area.

Click here for more information on Spider Mites

Adam White
Carson & Barron Farms Inc.
Pioneer Sales Representative
C - 319-325-1421
O - 319-938-2897F -
319-938-2619
adam.white@plantpioneer.com

Best Corn Around- Update

This is a 109 day corn planted March 30th. It is the best corn around.
Pollination was perfect. We have had No rain in 33 days and it has aborted
the ends. The ear on the left is an above average Ear. The Ear an the
right is an Average ear. Not good need a little rain!

Sent in by Michael E. Hardy


Reply: Thanks for calling in Mike to clarify your whereabouts. Mike is located near Lorhville, IA (who's motto is: Better not Bigger) north of Jefferson on the Greene-Calhoun County line. These  particular ears pollinated at 18x40 and are now down to 18x20 due to the dry conditions. Pop. 32,500- 33,000.

Ouch

Just got word about a crop insurance agent near KC that "saved" his customers some money by excluding the Harvest Price Option #HORROR -- Doug Bartlett (@Grainmonster)