Iowa's premier weekly crop reports 5/6/20

After several good planting days, farmers in the area are close to finishing corn planting and making good progress on soybeans, Sievers said April 30. “I’d say 95% of the corn and maybe 50% of the soybeans are already in the ground,” he said. “It’s crazy to think of how fast we are going.” While subsoil moisture is good, the topsoil could use a rain, Sievers said.

“I’d say 90% of everybody are done already,” Myers said April 30 from the cab of his planter. “Driving around, you don’t see many fields that aren’t...