Now that the 2022 harvest has finished, producers are already preparing for the 2023 planting season. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says, “Iowa farmers are looking ahead to next year by considering input choices and conservation practices and making decisions about marketing. Wet conditions would be welcome in the weeks ahead to help chip away at precipitation deficits and to replenish our soil moisture levels.” More than two-thirds of the state remains in some level of drought conditions. Topsoil moisture conditions rated 23 percent very short and 33 percent short. It was similar for subsoil at 30 percent very short and 35 percent short. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this is the worst season-end rating for the state since 2012, when topsoil moisture conditions registered 72 percent short to very short. View the USDA’s complete Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report for the week ending Nov. 27 at nass.usda.gov.
