Brett Peelen
Brett Peelen
O’Brien County

Northwest Iowa

“We’ve been holding on with small rains here and there. I think the crops here really have a lot of potential if we get a few more,” Peelen said Aug. 6. Corn is in the milk stage, and soybeans are setting pods, he said. Peelen just finished up his third cutting of alfalfa. “It’s turned out to be really nice hay for a field that really had only an inch of rain in the last 30 days,” he said.

Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson
Winnebago County

North Central Iowa

“I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but we’re dry,” Anderson said Aug. 6. Soybeans...