Iowa's premier weekly crop reports 4/19/2017

“There’s a lot going on here,” Fehr said April 13. “People are chopping corn stalks, putting on anhydrous and planting oats.” A few area farmers have planted corn, but most are still a few days off, he said. “The ground is working up nice, and there are no puddles,” Fehr said. Newly planted oats are emerging, he added. Fehr uses no-till to raise corn and soybeans in a 50-50 rotation on his farm near Mallard. 

“Ground conditions have been pretty good,” Feckers said April 13. He was about 85...