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Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey says farmers have been able to catch up quite a bit in their planting with some days of dry weather. But he says some of the corn that’s already emerged may have been in too much water to make it. “They’ll be a little bit of replant where some water has been standing. Most of the rest of the crop it sounds like is up and going,” Northey says. “There’s still some beans to be planted yet….and it is wet enough across Iowa it’s going to take a little while in some places to be able to get back in the field.”
It’s preferred to get the corn all planted by mid-May to avoid any loss in yield. While 92 percent of the corn was planted by the start of this week, Northey says there’s still plenty to be concerned about. “Even just eight percent of the corn means we have a million acres of corn yet to plant — and that’s not in here by the end of May — so we’ll see,” Northey says. “That starts to lose a little yield. Certainly some replants in some bottoms that’ll need to happen, that’ll probably be a little lower yield expectations for producers as well.”
Northey says farmers were busy at the various times when the weather was dry. He says there was one in April, one in early May and then the middle of May, so the planting times have been spread out and it is kind of an experiment in different planting times.
Northey says he’s gotten all his corn planted, but like other farmers, he needs some heat to get it growing. “We do need some warm weather to get it up and going. Most of it has emerged across the state, but it’s still coming yet,” Northey says.
He farms near Spirit Lake and says he still has some beans to get planted.
(Radio Iowa)
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Police in Creston say two people were arrested Tuesday afternoon for Violating Protection Orders. 34-year old Erin Marie Wallace, and 35-year old Kevin Lee Cottrell, both of Creston, were arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center on Union County warrants for Violating the Protective Order. Wallace was being held in the Ringgold County Jail, and Cottrell was being held in the Union County Jail, both while awaiting an appearance before the magistrate.
The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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Some Regional Girls Team Tennis matches were completed on Saturday around the state but some sites were impacted by rainy weather and moved to Monday. Due to the delays First-Round State matches have been moved to Tuesday, May 23rd so that Regional Finals can be finished on Monday.
Saturday, May 20th Scores
1A Region 1 @ Harlan: Shenandoah 5, Denison-Schleswig 0
1A Region 2 @ Atlantic: Glenwood 5, Clarke 1
2A Region 2 @ West Des Moines Valley: Urbandale 5, Abraham Lincoln 0
2A Region 2 @ Pleasant Hill: Dowling Catholic 5, Lewis Central 0
Monday, May 22nd Regional Finals
1A Region 1 @ Spencer: Spirit Lake/Okoboji 5, Cherokee 1
1A Region 2 @ Decorah: Waverly-Shell Rock 5, Decorah 0
Tuesday, May 23rd First Round State
1A Region 1 @ Denison/Red Oak (Moved mid-match due to rain): Shenandoah 5, Spirit Lake/Okoboji 1
1A Region 2 @ Johnston (Moved due to Rain): Waverly-Shell Rock 5, Glenwood 0
Shenandoah advances to the Class 1A Team State Final Four on June 3rd at the Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex in Iowa City. Play will begin at 9:00am that morning for Semifinal matches, with Finals being played at 2:00pm or an hour after the end of Semifinals.
1A Final Four: Shenandoah, Waverly-Shell Rock, Waterloo Columbus, Dubuque Wahlert.
Perry 3, Atlantic 1
Boone 2, Carroll 1 (2OT)
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 4, Treynor 0
Denison-Schleswig 5, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 1
Lewis Central 7, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 0
Nodaway Valley/ACGC/WCV 3, Harlan 2 (OT)
Tri-Center, Neola 2, Glenwood 1
A new survey of rural bankers in Iowa and several other Midwest states suggests the ag economy is improving. Creighton University’s “Rural Mainstreet Index” hit a two-year high in May. Economist Ernie Goss conducts the monthly survey and says lender confidence levels on the rural economy for May inched into positive territory for the first time since August 2015. Farm land prices and ag equipment sales were still negative, but they moved in a positive direction.
“It was still not a great report, but we’re talking about many months, in this case 20 straight months, of the overall index being below growth neutral. Moving above growth neutral was certainly good news,” Goss said.
Survey participants said, over the next five years, rising regulatory costs will be their top challenge. The number of rural bankers reporting farm foreclosures was the biggest risk doubled to one in ten, but Goss says it would take even lower commodity prices for that to be a major concern.
“At this point in time, agricultural commodity prices have at least stabilized. They’re not growing, but what we need to see of course is a good 20-to-25 percent increase in grain prices and livestock prices,” Goss said.
Nearly 90 percent of bankers said low commodity prices were the biggest threat to the rural economy, slightly less than last year. Participants surveyed were located in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
(Radio Iowa)
Baseball
ADM, Adel 8, Des Moines, Roosevelt 2
Glenwood 8, Creston 2
Harlan 8, Kuemper Catholic 0
IKM-Manning 3, AHSTW, Avoca 1 (called in 5th inning due to rain)
Lenox 6, Sidney 5
Lewis Central 10, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 6
Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 12, OA-BCIG 4
Martensdale-St. Marys 11, Coon Rapids-Bayard 0 (5 Innings )
Martensdale-St. Marys 6, Coon Rapids-Bayard 2 (10 Innings )
Missouri Valley 19, Riverside, Oakland 2
Mount Ayr 21, East Mills 11
Norwalk 9, Nodaway Valley 0
Shenandoah 6, Red Oak 2
Spencer 8, Denison-Schleswig 0
Treynor 26, Griswold 1 (5 innings)
Softball
ADM 10, Des Moines, Roosevelt 0
Bishop Heelan, Sioux City 16, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 3
Denison-Schleswig 4, Carroll 0
Glenwood 19, Creston 1
Glidden-Ralston 11, South Central Calhoun 0 (5 innings)
IKM-Manning 6, AHSTW 0
Lenox 3, Sidney 2
Lewis Central 16, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 0 (3 innings)
Missouri Valley 14, Riverside, Oakland 0
Mount Ayr 12, East Mills 0
Orient-Macksburg 9, East Union 7
Red Oak 12, Shenandoah 9
Treynor 12, Griswold 0
Iowa junior Jake Adams is the Big Ten player of the year. Adams is a rare combination of average and power. He finished fourth in the conference with a .344 average and led the Big Ten in home runs and RBI. His 24 homers broke Iowa’s single season record. His numbers also show how far the Iowa program has progressed. Four years ago the Hawkeyes had two home runs, as a team.
Iowa coach Rick Heller says Adams is a complete hitter. He says Adams is a professional level hitter already. The Hawkeyes are 34-19 and open the Big Ten Tournament tonight (Wednesday night) in Bloomington, Indiana against fourth seeded Maryland.
(Learfield Sports)
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