Coming off the recent rainfall in Greene County, one field agronomist believes crops are setting up better than other parts of the state.

Landus Cooperative Field Agronomist Dan Bjorklund talks about how crucial the over 1.5 inches of rainfall that happened earlier this week in Greene County has been to improve soil conditions to kickstart the second half of the growing season.

“At this time of the year when you’ve got the corn really going to fill those kernels that have developed, and you’ve got the soybeans wanting to get into hardcore fill of the beans and the pods, (it’s) perfect timing.” 

Bjorklund describes what some Greene County farmers are saying to him after having fortunate weather conditions compared to northern and northwestern portions of Iowa.

“There were individuals on the western side and really all the way up towards Jefferson and east that were telling me that this might be their record yields.”  

According to the latest Crop Progress and Condition Report from the Iowa Department of Agriculture, statewide corn is 77 percent good to excellent condition, and soybeans are 76 percent good to excellent.