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The heat and drought have continued to cause Iowa crops to deteriorate. The U-S-D-A crop report out Monday shows the corn condition declined by three percentage points in the last week where 46 percent is rated in good to excellent condition. Soybeans took a bigger hit, dropping five percentage points to average 44 percent in good to excellent condition. Dolph Ivener found issues in his cornfield in western Iowa that started with brown leaves.
Ivener estimates big swings in yields from 200 bushels per acre on his farms with heavier rainfall to around 40 in spots stifled by a third year of drought.
The crop report shows that 38 percent of the corn crop has reached maturity, which is one week ahead of last year and six days ahead of normal.
Farmers in Ukraine are now raising hogs thanks to a little help from Iowa State University. Justin Brown, an I-S-U professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, is leading a series of webinars just for Ukrainian farmers. Due to the prolonged war with Russia, Brown says corn producers in Ukraine aren’t able to export much, if any, of their grain.
Brown says the response to the I-S-U webinars has been very good. He presents them early in the morning and they air in Ukraine around the lunch hour.
Brown prepares his presentation slides in English and sends them to the president of the Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders, who translates them into Ukrainian, while the lectures themselves are dubbed in that language for the Ukranian farmers.
Those questions are translated live, along with his answers. The last of the webinars will be presented this month.
Today: Sunny with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming west northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly clear with a low around 47. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday: Sunny with a high near 76. Light and variable wind.
Thursday: Sunny with a high near 77. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Friday: A chance of showers in the afternoon. Partly sunny with a high near 78.
Saturday: Mostly sunny with a high near 74.
Parts of Iowa got rain Sunday evening into today (Monday), but the state climatologist says the rain won’t put much of a dent in Iowa’s longstanding drought. Justin Glisan says rainfall amounts ranged from on quarter to half an inch in the northern parts of the state, to an inch or more farther south.
Glisan says northeast Iowa just had its tenth-driest summer, and would need six-to-eight inches of rain above the average to make up for this year’s rainfall deficits.
Glisan says the current drought hasn’t been quite as bad as droughts in 2012 or 1988, because temperatures this summer was cooler overall than those two years. Glisan made his comments on the Iowa Public Radio Program “River to River.”
DES MOINES – Monday, Governor Kim Reynolds signed a proclamation relating to the weight limits and transportation of grain, fertilizer, and manure.
The proclamation is effective immediately and continues through October 11, 2023. The proclamation allows vehicles transporting corn, soybeans, hay, straw, silage, stover, fertilizer (dry, liquid, and gas), and manure (dry and liquid) to be overweight (not exceeding 90,000 pounds gross weight) without a permit for the duration of this proclamation.
This proclamation applies to loads transported on all highways within Iowa (excluding the interstate system) and those which do not exceed a maximum of 90,000 pounds gross weight, do not exceed the maximum axle weight limit determined under the non-primary highway maximum gross weight table in Iowa Code § 321.463 (6) (a) and (b), by more than 12.5 percent, do not exceed the legal maximum axle weight limit of 20,000 pounds, and comply with posted limits on roads and bridges.
See the proclamation here.
Iowans are familiar with the emerald ash borer and the green insect’s threat to our foliage, but we’re also being asked to be on guard for another insect that’s equally as lethal to a much wider variety of trees. Rhonda Santos (SAN-toes), a spokeswoman for the U-S-D-A, says this is the ideal time of year for Iowa homeowners to examine their trees for the Asian longhorned beetle and to report any clues they find about the invasive pest.
Unlike the emerald ash borer, the Asian longhorned beetle likes to feed on a host of trees, including: ash, birch, elm, sycamore, maple, buckeye, poplar and willow. The bug has distinct markings and leaves behind a series of holes and other signs in trees that make it quick to identify.
The beetle is not native to the U.S. and has few-to-no natural predators. Santos encourages Iowans to take five minutes and give your trees a close inspection for those round holes or sawdust.
The beetle was first spotted in the U.S. in New York in 1996 and spread quickly. It’s one of a group of invasive pests and plant diseases that costs the nation some 40-billion dollars each year in losses to trees, plants, and crops. For more information or to report the insect or tree damage, visit www.asianlonghornedbeetle.com.
Monday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms early. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny with a high near 71. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. North wind at 5 mph.
Tuesday: Sunny with a high near 74. Calm wind becoming west northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday: Sunny with a high near 75.
Thursday: Sunny with a high near 76.
Friday: Mostly sunny with a high near 75.
Today: Increasing clouds, with a high near 84. South wind at 5 mph.
Tonight: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. South wind around 5 mph becoming north after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Sunday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Monday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 72. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 71.
Over the summer, the Atlantic FFA participated in several different livestock judging contests across the area; all of which at county fairs. Livestock judging is all about analyzing animals, whether that be beef, swine, sheep, or goat, and how they compare with one another as well as how they compare to an ideal standard. At most local events, teams up to four will just have to place four animals in the most optimal order, while at state events and above, contestants will have to give specific reasoning for their choices.
The first contest that members attended was at the Adams County Fair, which is where Team 1 placed 7th and Team 2 placed 15th. The first team included Miraylie Stuart, Lily Johnson, and Lauren Comes, who placed 5th individually. The 15th-place team was made up of Aly Dreager, Frank Freund, and Hayden Kleen.
Moving on to the Carroll County Fair with team 1 consisting of Lola Comes, Lily Johnson, and Mckenna Sonntag, placed 7th and Sonntag individually placed 7th. Team 2 consists of Aly Dreager, Frank Freund, and Hayden Kleen. I2 of which placed individually, Kleen, 8th, and Dreager, 10th.
Our next stop was Crawford County. Team 1 was made up of Lauren Comes, Lola Comes, Aly Dreager, and Mckenna Sonntag placed 2nd. Individuals were placed, Dreager, 7th, Lola Comes, 10th,
Hayden Kleen, Lily Johnson, Maddy Anderson, and Miraylie Stuart
and Sonntag 12th. Team 2 consisted of Hayden Kleen, Lily Johnson, Maddy Anderson, and Miraylie Stuart, they placed 7th. Our 3rd team was made up of Frank Freund, Parker Brock, Bailey Grieshaber, and Kaydence Sturm together placing 12th.
Next, we went to the Montgomery County Fair. Our first team made up of Aly Dreager, Colton Becker, Lauren Comes, and Mckenna Sonntag placed 2nd. Individually, Mckenna placed 4th, Aly 11th, and Lauren 18th. Team 2 consisting of Lily Johnson, Hayden Kleen, Parker Brock, and Miraylie Stuart placed 16th. The 3rd team was made up of Jaquie Freund, Natalie Smith, Kaydence Sturm, and Addalynn Sonntag placing 12th.
Moving on to Union County with team 1 containing Aly Dreager, Miraylie Stuart, and Lauren Comes. Together they placed 3rd and individually Lauren placed 8th and Aly placed 10th. Team 2 had members Maddy Anderson, Lily Johnson, and Chloe Sonntag placing 6th. Individually Maddy placed 9th. Our 3rd team consisted of Kaydence Sturm, Jaquie Freund, and Bailey Grieshaber. As a team, they placed 8th.
Parker Brock, Addie Freund, Bailey Grieshaber, and Frank Freund
During the Cass County Fair, we had several members judge in the FFA and 4-H districts category. FFA team 1 placed 8th, made up of Colton Becker, Lauren Comes, Miraylie Stuart, and Aly Dreager. Team 2 consisted of Kaydence Sturm, Maddy Anderson, Lola Comes, and Hayden Kleen, as a team they placed 12th. Our 3rd team placed 13th, containing members Parker Brock, Addie Freund, Bailey Grieshaber, and Frank Freund.
For state livestock judging, we had 3 members participate, those of which were Aly Dreager, Lauren Comes, and Mckenna Sonntag. They earned a silver medal and both Mckenna and Lauren placed in the top 25.
Aly Dreager, Lola Comes, Lauren Comes, and Mckenna Sonntag
The Guthrie County Fair livestock judging contest was held on August 31st. Atlantic FFA team 1 consisted of Aly Dreager, Lola Comes, Lauren Comes, and Mckenna Sonntag, they placed 3rd. Team 2 members Frank Freund, Hayden Kleen, Lily Johnson, and Miraylie Stuart, placed 6th. Team 3 was made up of Rylee Harlan, Addylynn Sonntag, Maddy Anderson, and Addie Freund, they placed 9th. Individually, Mckenna placed 4th, and Lola placed 10th.
As a reflection, Lauren Comes said ”Atlantic had a really good turnout for livestock judging this year. Earlier in the summer we took a trip over to Cedar Rapids, which was something new that we tried and we had never done before but I definitely enjoyed that not only for the judging aspect but being able to just compete against new individuals and new teams that we aren’t used to and having a new environment that we don’t typically see often. Then we went around to about 10 counties around Iowa this summer and overall we did pretty well. We usually had a team or two and a couple of individuals placed in the top 10 in every county. We ended off our year by taking three individuals, including myself, up to the state livestock judging contest in Ames. This contest had a really big turnout. There were a lot of individuals and schools from all over Iowa. There was a lot of competition but overall we did really well. Mckenna Sonntag and I placed in the top 25 out of 150 individuals which is really cool to experience and really good to see for Atlantic to get up in the top 25. Our team placed 16th out of 45 teams and earned a silver rating. I think next year with this new group of young kids coming in, we have a lot of potential. I see a lot of growth within the Atlantic chapter, and I am really excited to see what the future holds for us not only within livestock judging but just overall as a chapter.”
We will have one more contest in October at Northwest Missouri State University with members participating in several different events including livestock judging
Atlantic FFA Reporter – Lily Johnson
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