The Iowa Department of Agriculture and the USDA says much of Iowa experienced cooler than normal temperatures and much needed rain showers leaving Iowa farmers with 3.3 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending April 6. Minimal fieldwork was done during the week, but some producers were able to plant oats, apply anhydrous, and dry fertilizer. Topsoil moisture condition rated 28% short to very short, and 72% adequate to surplus. Subsoil moisture condition rated 44 percent short to very short, and 56 percent adequate to surplus.
| State Climatologist Justin Glisan says the first week of April brought unseasonably wet conditions across the state. Some points in northwest and southern Iowa reported over 200% of normal rainfall. Precipitation in the last week ranged between .5 and 1.5 inches in Plymouth County Temperatures were colder than average over Iowa’s northwest corner, while near normal conditions were found in southeast Iowa. Plymouth County temperatures were three to seven degrees below normal, with the greatest departure in an area from Le Mars to the Cherokee County line.
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