The majority of corn and soybeans in Iowa have been planted, and replanting has occurred in some places due to recent flooding, according to Field Agronomist Angie Rieck-Hinz at the Wright County ISU Extension Office.
“We’re like 96 percent of the corn planted, or right around 93 percent of the beans are planted,” Rieck-Hinz says. “For the most part, I would say everything’s been planted except those areas that received really big amounts of rain in the last month. There’s still people waiting to get into some fields because it’s just too wet. There’s a lot of stuff that just, especially some later soybeans that just got planted in the last week or so, just because those fields were wet, people had been out of the field for a while. But for the most part, we’re done planting. A lot of people have been in and done some replanting either to thicken up the stand or to replant those potholes that drowned out with all the rain we had earlier this year.”
Rieck-Hinz shares the latest agronomy news in North Central Iowa on the ISU Extension Midday Report.
