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Regional Update: June 6 - June 14, 2022

June 14, 2022 11:52 PM
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While parts of western Iowa seem to miss the rain or get small amounts of rain, other parts of the state received over 3 inches of rain this past week and experienced flooding. Unfortunately, some areas, particularly southwest and south-central Iowa, received some significant hail damage as well resulting in some fields being replanted. Where conditions were fit last week, there were a lot of post herbicide applications, sidedressing, and wrapping up putting up the first cutting of hay. Read on to hear what ISU Extension Field Agronomist’s are hearing and seeing across the state.

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Regional Update: June 21 to June 29, 2021

June 29, 2021 10:35 PM
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While some much-needed rain did come this past week it seems that the drier areas continue to miss out or get minimal rainfall and the wetter parts of the state keep getting wetter. The rain also brought some hail, which caused some pretty significant damage not just to crops but property as well. In addition to the rain (lack of, too much, or just enough) and hail, herbicide injury in soybeans and potassium (K) deficiency are some of the issues ISU Extension field agronomists have observed this past week. Read on to see what's happening in different regions across the state.

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Late Season Hail Damage to Crops

August 20, 2020 10:18 AM
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While much of the damage from this month’s derecho is due to strong hurricane-force winds, isolated pockets of hail affected crops also, particularly in parts of Carroll, Greene, Hamilton, Hardin, Boone, and Story counties.  When addressing any crop damage, contact your crop insurance provider as soon as damage is identified to determine coverage and avoid loss of coverage. Yield loss for only hail damage is closely related to crop growth stage (maturity) and percentage of leaf tissue lost for soybeans and corn.

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Wind and Hail Damage Reported Across Iowa

July 13, 2020 2:19 PM
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The storms that moved across Iowa late last week and over the weekend brought rainfall, but they also brought some strong winds and hail. For those folks dealing with wind or hail damage, the first step should be to communicate with your crop insurance agent. Additionally, below are some resources that may be useful in evaluating the impact of the damage.

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Would a fungicide benefit hail-damaged crops?

June 8, 2018 9:41 AM
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Widespread hail occurred in Iowa on 6 June 2018, causing damage to many acres of corn and soybean plants. At this time, most of the corn is in the V6 to V8 growth stages, while soybeans are at the V1 to V3 growth stages. Some areas of the state also received hail injury earlier this season. Questions have been raised regarding the benefit of a fungicide application to hail-damaged crops in these early to mid vegetative stages.

Hail: Deciding to keep the stand or making other plans

June 19, 2017 8:11 AM
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Unfortunately, hail damage is not a rare occurrence in Iowa. Every year hail damage occurs; it is just a matter of how severe it is and how widespread it is. In most cases, hail damage results in varied levels of defoliation. Defoliation will have an impact on crop yield potential at a greater percentage as vegetative development progresses. The following discussion is largely for more severe hail injury that has resulted in moderate to severe stand loss.

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Hail damage in northwest Iowa

June 22, 2016 2:07 PM
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On Friday evening of last week (June 17), a storm system rolled through the northwest corner of Iowa. Winds with this system were clocked in the 70+ mph range, and one weather station measured wind gusts over 100 mph. Many large trees were snapped off, grain bins damaged, and other facilities were damaged and/or destroyed in places. One added “bonus” to that storm was hail. A 1-3 mile wide strip of hail damage from the NW edge of Plymouth County to near the SE corner of the county, and proceeding a few miles into Woodbury County, really did some significant damage to many crop fields.

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Hail and Fungicides Update 2013

July 17, 2013
Hail machine "hailing" soybean plants

By Adam Sisson, Integrated Pest Management, and Daren Mueller, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology


When crop hail damage occurred in the past, farmers could either replant or see if crops would grow out of the damage, depending on extent and timing of hail. However, there have been significant changes in production practices for corn and soybean, especially concerning fungicide use and the labeling of fungicides for the mitigation of plant stress such as hail injury.


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