Retrospective: A Decade of Field Notes from Walter Falcon
2022: Notes from the Field
The final installment of Notes from the Field marks Falcon's retirement from Stanford and transition back to life full-time on his Iowa farm.
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2021: Notes from the Field
Falcon relays his experience of life on the farm during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2019: Flood, Drought and Political Invasion - A Lament From Rural Iowa
In 2018, growing conditions were practically perfect; in 2019, almost nothing has gone right.
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2018: Prices, Politics, and Precipitation
The 2018 crop year has been strange, even for Iowa.
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2017: Blue Skies and Dark Clouds
Risk, like beauty, is sometimes in the eyes of the beholder.
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2016: Milestones, Markets and Malaise
The 2016 crop year has been nothing short of phenomenal.
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2015: Rolling Through Iowa
Things could still go wrong—a typical farmer comment—but at the moment, we are looking at near-record yields on our farm.
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2014: Blowin' in the wind
Storms and high windspeeds trouble the Iowa farm.
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2013: Stuck in the mud
Iowa goes from one of the very hottest and driest years on record to one of the very coldest and wettest.
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2012: Field notes from an Iowa farm
The first installment of Farm Notes chronicled the problems of farming during one of Eastern Iowa’s most severe droughts.
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