virgil schmitt

With most of the harvest in, farmers are getting a good sense of how crops were affected by this year’s extremely wet spring and abnormally dry…

This harvest season farmers are having a tougher time deciding what to do with their crops once they’re out of the field.The market price farmers get for…

The latest USDA drought monitor map shows that 70 percent of Iowa is abnormally dry. That includes all of Des Moines, Henry and Lee counties.Virgil…

Farmers faced not being able to get their corn in on time have several options. They may switch acres from corn to soybeans or they may use “prevented…