It is September 24 and thankfully no frost to speak of yet. The 2008 season will be one to look back on as a reference for variable weather effects on crops. I last posted degree day data in mid-August. As mentioned in that article, daily degree day accumulations are less critical once corn and soybean progress to reproductive stages, when general water and temperature stresses and solar radiation drive development
The week of May 10 was seasonally cold; all areas of Iowa fell behind long term average degree-day a...
ISU Extension climatologist Elwynn Taylor, integrated pest management specialist Rich Pope and soybe...
It is beyond time to get hot summer weather started! Both corn and soybean are (finally) in reproduc...
The 2009 growing season finished off May a bit cool, with degree day accumulations for only one of t...
A third straight week of cooler than average weather has slowed crop progress across Iowa. Sporadic ...
After three weeks of near-normal temperatures, Iowa weather wrapped up August with a return to colde...
Cooler-than-normal weather continued as September dawned in Iowa. During the first week of September...
A near-perfect week! Sept.13 - 20 provided seasonally normal temperatures, bright sunshine and some...
In a season that started with weather tumult fouling up the planting season in many areas, we have d...
Cool weather and associated slow growing degree day accumulations describe the 2009 corn growing sea...
Iowa corn is tasselling and silking this week. We think of the silk date as a marker for the final 6...
Although the week of May 10 was seasonally cold; we made up most of that week\u27s lost heat during ...
The second week of May was dominated by a stagnant low over the Great Lakes that pumped cool norther...
Iowa weather continued to track cool and wet as degree days fell just a bit further behind long-term...
Iowa crops continue in good condition as we finish one of the coolest July 4 holidays on record. Ea...
The week of May 10 was seasonally cold; all areas of Iowa fell behind long term average degree-day a...
ISU Extension climatologist Elwynn Taylor, integrated pest management specialist Rich Pope and soybe...
It is beyond time to get hot summer weather started! Both corn and soybean are (finally) in reproduc...
The 2009 growing season finished off May a bit cool, with degree day accumulations for only one of t...
A third straight week of cooler than average weather has slowed crop progress across Iowa. Sporadic ...
After three weeks of near-normal temperatures, Iowa weather wrapped up August with a return to colde...
Cooler-than-normal weather continued as September dawned in Iowa. During the first week of September...
A near-perfect week! Sept.13 - 20 provided seasonally normal temperatures, bright sunshine and some...
In a season that started with weather tumult fouling up the planting season in many areas, we have d...
Cool weather and associated slow growing degree day accumulations describe the 2009 corn growing sea...
Iowa corn is tasselling and silking this week. We think of the silk date as a marker for the final 6...
Although the week of May 10 was seasonally cold; we made up most of that week\u27s lost heat during ...
The second week of May was dominated by a stagnant low over the Great Lakes that pumped cool norther...
Iowa weather continued to track cool and wet as degree days fell just a bit further behind long-term...
Iowa crops continue in good condition as we finish one of the coolest July 4 holidays on record. Ea...
The week of May 10 was seasonally cold; all areas of Iowa fell behind long term average degree-day a...
ISU Extension climatologist Elwynn Taylor, integrated pest management specialist Rich Pope and soybe...
It is beyond time to get hot summer weather started! Both corn and soybean are (finally) in reproduc...