I'm in Northwest Iowa about 60 miles south of Minnesota and 90 miles east of South Dakota. My farm caught some small rains the surrounding area did not get so my crops look pretty good though behind in maturity. Most of the area around me has been too dry. In the dry areas some corn looks OK and across the road the corn looks very dry. I don't know if this is because of the characteristics of the hybrid or because of tillage or crop rotation practices.
My area has been blessed with rain for several years and I think some farmers forgot about moisture conservation in their tillage practices. One farm north of me a few miles that is on light to sandy ground has always been no tilled and rotated corn-beans successfully. Two years ago this land was bought by a hog company that is raising it's own feed corn. The hog company ripped the land deep before they planted corn last year and got away with it on that light soil because of plenty of rainfall. Last fall they ripped the stalks deep again and planted corn on that ground this year. The rain quit in early June in that area and now the corn looks burned up. The neighbor's corn looks dry but not nearly as bad.
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