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***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

Agclone91 said:
Beans are remarkable at handling dry weather. The places that consistently produce 80+ bushel yields (Nebraska and Kansas in my experience) are arid climates with irrigation. The dry air helps prevent disease development and then they can crank the water to them during pod fill. Corn sets it's yield potential early in the season, but beans hold onto theirs up until the bloody end as long as you can keep them from aborting pods.
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Yep, but still crazy that beans yielded what they did with almost no rain for july and august last year. One would think they would need at least some rain in that period considering the months leading up to that were dry too. There isn’t irrigation in that part of SE Iowa either. Corn was also 250 bu in that area for your decent to good producers.
 
awd4cy said:
Yep, but still crazy that beans yielded what they did with almost no rain for july and august last year. One would think they would need at least some rain in that period considering the months leading up to that were dry too. There isn’t irrigation in that part of SE Iowa either. Corn was also 250 bu in that area for your decent to good producers.
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The advantage that area had was that they were very, very dry through the early and middle part of the growing season which allowed good root mass development and they really took advantage of the July and August rain that they did get. West central Iowa was the opposite where we started with good moisture through June then it shut off and we didn't have the root systems to support the late dry weather. Still had good yields, but not as good as SE Iowa. Many of my SE Iowa growers out yielded even my Nebraska growers last year. Guys around Fairfield that got roughly an inch of early August rain had 15+ bu/A better yields than some folks around Brighton who didn't. Was pretty wild.
 
Talking possible severe weather after 4 in western Iowa, then moving east. Another day of planting, planting my a$$ in the recliner! Thanks to Dave Claussen for this tidbit, may he RIP.
 
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Jer said:
Nitpick - they should use red or orange to signify such a huge risk - pink lacks the emphasis.
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Maybe they figure red is overused and underappreciated, and pink would catch the eye.
 
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