Eastern Iowa Farmer Spring 2021
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mother nature<br />
“None of this equipment<br />
is cheap, but what would it<br />
cost to leave all this corn out<br />
there?” he said. “I hope I can<br />
take it off next year, but at<br />
least I’ll have it on hand.”<br />
Ups and downs<br />
The 2020 growing season<br />
was fraught with variables.<br />
<strong>Farmer</strong>s began the season<br />
with pie-in-the-sky ideas of<br />
record yields. Seeds were in<br />
the ground — in some cases,<br />
by the first week of May.<br />
Virgil Schmitt, who operates<br />
a farm in Muscatine<br />
County where he lives and<br />
works for the <strong>Iowa</strong> State<br />
Extension as an agronomist in<br />
Muscatine County, said 2020<br />
and 2019 were polar opposites,<br />
schedule wise.<br />
“Last year I had my corn<br />
planted June 7, and this year it<br />
was April 25,” he said. He said<br />
producers across the eastern<br />
side of the state were in the<br />
same boat.<br />
However, the early planting<br />
did not lead to the yields farmers<br />
were hoping for, Schmitt<br />
said.<br />
“This year should have been<br />
much higher than last year,<br />
but it didn’t come through in<br />
yields. That is a scenario I’ve<br />
heard a lot of people say. It<br />
was respectable, but it wasn’t<br />
as good as people anticipated<br />
given how the crop looked<br />
Aug. 9.<br />
“Corn was looking about<br />
as good as I’ve ever seen corn<br />
look,” Schmitt said. “People<br />
were very optimistic at that<br />
point.”<br />
Then, the derecho, a weather<br />
phenomenon that brings<br />
sustained winds of hurricane<br />
force to an area 400 miles or<br />
larger, hit.<br />
Petersen remembers exactly<br />
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