No rain last week. We are going on three weeks without rain. Crops are showing stress now. Pasture conditions are just the same. There are cracks showing up in the pastures. Crop potential is diminished at this point in the season.

We did not receive any rain last week. It was a good week to put up hay with balers working all week. Corn and beans are growing fast with lots of sunshine and warm weather. Lots of post spraying and sidedressing nitrogen going on as well. Pastures are starting to suffer with the lack of rain.

We received just a trace of rain last week. After the ponds dried out we replanted a few acres of corn. It should catch up with the warmer weather. Some post spraying is going on now. I have seen some liquid nitrogen being applied as well. Cattle are staying home for now.

Warren County received anywhere from 1 to 4 inches of rain May 6-7. Ponding was in some of our fields. Planting started again on Thursday. The last of our crops are just emerging. The stands look good. Pasture conditions are much better after the rains.

We received 0.5 inches of rain April 24. We finished planting soybeans that afternoon. After it dried out, we started planting corn on Thursday. During the break we moved the cattle out to pasture. I still think our area is abnormally dry for this time of year. We hardly needed our boots to …

We received 0.5 inches of rain last week in three different events. It slowed down planting for a while. The cooler temperatures had a lot to do with that. We got quite a few acres of soybeans planted before the rain. There is some corn planted in this area as well. We did not get any cattle…

No rain last week to report. We have only had 0.2 inches the whole month of April. The tiles are starting to run dry. We could use some rain. We started planting soybeans last Monday. Soil conditions were very good for early April. As the week went on, it became really windy and warm. There …

We only received 0.2 inches of rain here last week. Other areas got up to 2 inches and tornadoes all around us. Some folks started planting. It looks like beans, but I am not sure. We will start this week after some herbicides are sprayed. The pastures are starting to turn green. It won’t be…

Greetings from Warren County for another year of crop watching. We had a relatively mild winter. December was cold, but the rest of the winter had little to no snow. Last week the weather got dry and warmer. Many farmers were out planting oats, applying anhydrous and leveling chiseled fields…