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I am on another split route today as we head from Iowa City, Iowa to Rochester, Minnesota and I could not have a better driver for Day #4. I have had the chance to get to know Dick Overby over the years here on tour. He is from Minnesota and is retired from Rain & Hail, LLC. His perspective while driving through his part of the country is second to none and I am looking forward to getting started.
10:00 a.m.
After almost a two hour drive into northeast Iowa we made it to our first sample site. Some light showers moved through this part of Butler County just about an hour ago. By the looks of things they have been getting the rains needed to make for a very nice crop year. This is one of the highest population corn I have seen on this tour and if it weren?t for those numbers, this yield would have been mediocre. Our yield guess here is 190. Soybeans were very green and thick. Pod counts for our 3 plant samples were high and even. Our 3 x3 pod count for this field was 1584.
Butler County, Iowa
Butler County, Iowa
Butler County, Iowa
Butler County, Iowa
