Chris Ten Napel
Chris Ten Napel
Sioux County

Northwest Iowa

There was only one good day for field work last week, Ten Napel said. “We finished up hauling our manure yesterday,” he said April 25. There were also farmers applying anhydrous, doing tillage and a few scattered planters running before just under one-half inch of rain halted fieldwork again. “On the days that it’s dry, everything is working good. We go like crazy when we can.”

Austin Charlson
Austin Charlson
Wright County

North Central Iowa

“Things have really cut loose this...