Iowa's premier weekly crop reports 5/03/2017

“It’s a mixed bag here. Some guys are already done planting corn, and some guys haven’t even started,” Fehr said April 27. Many area farmers got a good start on corn planting before light rains and much colder temperatures slowed planting by later in the week, he said. Farmers are also applying pre-emerge herbicides and getting ready to terminate cover crops before planting soybeans, Fehr added. 

“We’re plugging away,” Feckers said April 27. He had 70 percent of his corn planted. “Other than being cold, ground...