Eastern Iowa Farmer Spring 2021
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Mother<br />
Nature<br />
is having her say<br />
<strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> farmers have found themselves<br />
battling the elements more than ever the past<br />
few years, and it is changing the way they work.<br />
Prices even out<br />
turbulent<br />
growing season<br />
Grain export numbers helping raise<br />
spirits after derecho leaves its mark<br />
BY nick joos<br />
eastern iowa farmer<br />
It’s as if Mother Nature took a big Sharpie and<br />
drew a line along the Jackson/Clinton County<br />
border and split the region in two.<br />
On the northern side of that line, Jackson<br />
County producers experienced, in some cases,<br />
corn yields well over 200 bushel per acre, said<br />
Joseph Bullock, who owns Bullocks, Inc. in Maquoketa<br />
with Linda and Joe Bullock. In Clinton County,<br />
though, that sentiment wasn’t quite so true.<br />
The Aug. 10 derecho that registered gusts more<br />
than 100 mph along the U.S. 30 corridor took a corn<br />
crop that had matured quickly and flattened it.<br />
David Frett, location manager of River Valley in<br />
DeWitt and Donahue, said the storm knocked the life<br />
out of corn that on Aug. 9 looked promising.<br />
The squall put into motion a harvest flurry as producers<br />
looked to remove the crop from fields as soon<br />
as they could to salvage it. However, there was only
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