Northeast Iowa Crop Conditions

The crops are progressing towards maturity at a fairly normal pace, and should largely reach maturity in 2-3 weeks. A concern is some late season leaf diseases in some corn varieties and SDS in some soybean fields.These diseases are largely a result of, cool, wet conditions we have had over the last month. While they generally will not cause large yield reductions, they will take away top end yield potential in some cases. Diseased corn plants will also be more susceptible to lodging and field loss as we get further into the fall.

The grain markets continue on a mostly steady to lower path. while most of the bearish news of large crops has been built into the markets it will still probably take well into harvest to find a bottom, after the push of bushels that have to be delivered to town is past.