Our farms received a much-needed rain early Saturday morning and then got another round of precipitation late Saturday night. Amounts ranged a…
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Let’s start with the positives — hay weather was great this past weekend, and a lot of good bales were made. The early-planted corn looks good…
On and off rain showers helped provide enough moisture to help push the corn and beans along. Corn is starting to get that dark green color th…
We had near-perfect weather this past week. The cows should be very happy with the hay that was made, and we had ideal conditions for post-spr…
A week of on-and-off showers amounted to 1 to 1.5 inches of rain. I saw some pictures around Monmouth that had hail so thick it looked like it…
This was a pretty busy week spraying beans. The Enlist weed control program seems to be unmatched, and you don't have to worry about dinging a…
This past week was really busy, racing the corn height to get side-dressing and spraying finished. We sprayed some early beans but most are no…
Crop development in our area is changing quickly. Early planted corn is V6 to V7 and close to knee high. It is getting ahold of early applied …
In our area, farmers are starting to finish up their planting season and break out the sprayers and strip-till bars. All the crops are looking…
Well, it looks like farmers here in Will County and surrounding areas are going to have the holiday weekend off. The night of Thursday, May 26…
Crop conditions continued to improve in Hancock County this week. Corn is looking great and has some real potential. Beans are beginning to lo…
The heat was welcomed for the corn and soybean crop in our area. We finished side-dress for our corn as well as replanting some soybeans. Nort…
Side-dressing is beginning to wrap up. Both corn and soybeans here are in good to excellent condition. In the southern part of Hancock County…
Early-planted crops look really good in our area. Our time this past week has been filled with side-dressing corn and finishing up with some c…
Rain, rain go away! We finished planting on Monday, but rains this week may have us back in the field spotting in wet holes. All of our corn i…
High heat and corn starting to look like pineapple tops were the stories for most of the week. In all honesty, things were heading the wrong d…
Hot temperatures with stray showers brought a fast-paced week to much of central Illinois. Those who side-dress liquid nitrogen with toolbars …
Rainfall and cooler temperatures best describe this past week for most of central Illinois. This has kept crops moving forward without an over…
Memorial Day brought high winds to an opening week for forages. Once winds subsided, many began post-application on corn. Some have even moved…
Frustrating weather fronts brought uncertainty to much of central Illinois. We were on schedule to receive a large amount of rain throughout t…
We received a little less than an inch across most of our growing area. Southern Champaign County/northern Douglas County wasn’t quite as luck…
It was an amazing weekend to give the crops a break, but it is all over now. It will be interesting to evaluate the crop after this week. We h…
It’s going to be a hot one! We unfortunately missed the rain last week/weekend, just to the north of us received some rain (and unfortunately …
It was another productive week. All our corn is side-dressed and we have finished post-application spraying. Most of the area is in full post-…
It’s been fantastic week to this point. We have all the corn side-dressed that is at the optimal stage for application. We have received nice …
Another scorcher of a week finally ended with an inch of rain on Sunday, bringing much-needed relief to crops around the area. Sunday afternoo…
With temps in the high 90s to low 100s all week, the area wheat crop dried down significantly. The corn crop began to show its first signs of …
On Monday we got the nicest slow pitter-patter rain at the farm, followed up by roughly a half-inch on Tuesday in less than an hour. No compla…
That is a wrap for #Plant 2022 at Rahmoeller Farms. It was not without its struggles though. On Tuesday, May 31, we cracked the center bearing…
Grateful thanks to you and to all who have served our country, and remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice this Memorial Day. It is …
Finish-up week for us as well as many of the neighbors. Wheat harvest wrapped up with very good yields, and double-crop planting came to a clo…
Hot and dry kicked wheat harvest in gear this week. Monday was definitely a Monday and a fight to get everything running smoothly. At the end …
This week was hit and miss with the rains. Nothing heavy, but enough to shut down operations for a few hours if the cloud found you. In betwee…
Fields dried out rather quickly, and our week started off on Sunday afternoon with side-dressing anhydrous on corn. The neighborhood was very …
This week has been a slow one for us. Spotty rains have had their eyes on us for the past week. It wasn’t all bad though. The every-other-day …
As I write this it is still sprinkling from a nice rain. We received anywhere from 0.3 inches on one farm to 0.6 on another. The crops are loo…
Hot and steamy this last week, and it looks like next week is the same. We were very fortunate to have an inch of rain on Thursday to carry us…
Beans are planted in the area. We are walking fields daily looking for problems. Corn is growing slowly because of the cool, cloudy weather, b…
It has been a productive week as the rain did not turn out to be much. Only a tenth on Wednesday. Corn planting is finished, and bean planting…
Replanting in our area has been on hold until the daily showers stop. The majority of the corn looks good and is growing, but the corn planted…
We got 0.8 inches early Sunday, the first real rain in the month. We had a couple tenths the first few days. I tried to cultivate milo after I…
A hot week we had last week. We got a tenth of an inch of rain Friday morning. One farm I was side-dressing got more than that. I showed three…
We finished beans last Monday and hauled grain out at the end of the week. We’ll start the first pass of side-dressing corn Tuesday. We could …
We got 0.3 inches of rain midweek, which slowed down bean planting. It helped on some dark ground that had gotten hard and dry. We have 86 acr…
Not much planting progress made this week. I did plant 51 acres Tuesday afternoon, all we really had ready ahead of a rain. We cut open some g…
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