Each growing season is different and the growing season in Iowa this year has been defined by a wide range of outcomes. Yields across the state have varied based on several conditions but primarily rainfall timing and disease pressure.
The growing season got off to fast start in Iowa with a lot of consistent rainfall in June and July. Then in early August the faucet shut off. On the topic of disease, southern rust pressure was widespread across the state this year. The disease even reached the northern counties in Iowa and caused many headaches for growers. In a featured conversation with the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network, Northwest Iowa Beck’s Hybrids agronomist Eric Bartels says the variability led to differing harvest results.
Bartels says that Beck’s is busy compiling the data from this year.
He says the data from the growing season will help to provide applicable lessons to future growing seasons.
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Full interview with Eric Bartels
