Iowa's premier weekly crop reports 4/20/22

Adam Glienke - Cherokee County
Northwest Iowa Iowa

“There are a few guys out doing tillage but not a lot,” Glienke said April 15. Cold temperatures and about one-quarter inch of rain kept planters out of fields last week. Glienke checked subsoil moisture on his farm and was pleased to see reserves hanging in there, despite a dry winter and spring. Glienke row-crops corn and soybeans and grows alfalfa for his cow-calf herd.

Ethan Lambert - Wright County
North Central Iowa

Storms rolled through north central Iowa April 12-13, dumping quite a bit of rain in most areas,...