Chet Vander Velde
Chet Vander Velde
O’Brien County

Northwest Iowa

“We’re getting there. We finally missed one of the rains,” Vander Velde said May 24. He estimated that about 75 percent of the area’s corn is planted and about 30 percent of the soybeans are in. With the warmer weather much of the corn, and some of the soybean acres have emerged, Vander Velde said. “We need to keep some rain coming, so we don’t get crusting.”

Joel Zeman
Joel Zeman
Humboldt County

North Central Iowa

“We are finally getting done with corn and are still working on beans,” Zeman said May 24. He estimated that about 90 percent of the corn has...