Crop fields in Greene County continue to push along in the growing season.

Greene County ISU Extension Field Agronomist Mike Witt says there’s been some decent rainfall this past week, especially in northern Greene County, where some fields had standing water in them.

“So those scenarios are, we did get heavy rains, but that moisture was able to soak in, get through that topsoil, and get into that subsurface moisture. With that as well, I did some scouting for some hail, out there in the area, again especially in  northern Greene County some fields got some fairly significant hail. Go out, scout the fields, make sure that you have the stands that you need, as far as corn goes and soybeans there’s probably some that are going to need to be replanted.”       

Witt points out there is starting to be some variability in the corn fields, but he believes most of them are in line with the statewide average of the majority being in the good to excellent range.

“So some of the corn might look a little patchy because it hasn’t reached its nitrogen yet. A lot of times we like say some of it is in that ‘ugly duckling’ stage where it’s in between reaching the nitrogen that was applied and really starting to take off. But with these warmer temperatures (and) the soil moisture that we had, it’s looking really good.”  

According to the latest Crop Condition and Progress Report from the Iowa Department of Agriculture, statewide about 72 percent of corn was rated good to excellent, and about 70 percent of soybeans were good to excellent.