Another dry week across Iowa stressed crops but did allow farmers to spray for weeds, side-dress nitrogen, and harvest hay.
The latest crop report from USDA says topsoil moisture levels went from under 40 percent short to very short to 70 percent short to very short during the past week.
North Iowa farmer Chris Edgington of Saint Ansgar says he uses climate technology that’s telling him he’s four to five inches short on moisture since early April.
