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We are happy to report that we finally received a few inches of much-needed precipitation. We still aren’t out of the woods yet though. Early …
We are finally receiving some much-needed rain. A majority of the soybean crop has been harvested in our area. Farmers are rolling hard on cor…
Soybean harvest is wrapping up quickly. Moisture is 10% and below, but yields seem to be strong considering the lack of rainfall we have had. …
Cooler temperatures were welcomed and brought along a very small shot of rain. That rain wasn’t enough to slow down any combines. Green bean h…
The combines are rolling heavy in our area. A lot of guys started harvesting beans in the middle of last week. Many of the plants still have l…
This past week was a lot slower than previous for harvest. We had plenty of showers amounting to anywhere from 1 to 2 inches. When we could, w…
Another week of harvest in the books. We had on and off rain throughout the beginning of the week. It didn’t amount to much, but slowed down p…
The warm and dry weather continued for most of the week. Everyone is going at it, with some in corn and some in soybeans. We’ve been doing cor…
Harvest is in full swing around here. Last week most everyone was out in corn, but people have been trying beans and moving over to beans as t…
Harvest has really started going this week. We started corn, as did many other guys around us. Moisture was all over the place, from 16-25% or…
Most of the area received more than 2 inches of rain last week, so the harvest progress was minimal. A few guys started shelling corn and cutt…
There were hit-or-miss rain showers here last week and allowed a lot of people to finish taking out their corn crop. There were only a few goo…
Harvest has progressed to at least 50% in the area. A lot of guys started cutting beans last week and yield reports are good. Beans are making…
We are shelling corn today that was flattened by a windstorm on Monday, Sept. 20. We are going to harvest all our corn and get it out of the f…
A lot of people will start harvest this week. Most people that have started are disappointed with their corn yields. A lot of the Easter-plant…
Last week brought more rain. It pushed most everyone out of the field. Many need to make a big run at soybeans at this point. We should get th…
This past week brought rain, so people stayed on corn to finish up. The last two days more jumped into soybean cutting. Now everyone is hammer…
The past week was very productive for many. Most focused on corn with standabilty concerns. What beans were cut are showing some huge yields. …
Everyone is plugging away. Stalk quality on corn continues to deteriorate, and more and more corn is going down. Many have stayed in corn, alt…
This past week many operators got started harvesting. In general most yield reports are less than expected. Several diseases are the culprit t…
Last week was a dud of a week for work. We got 4 inches of rain. But surprisingly it dried up quite a bit, and we were back in corn on Sunday.…
We did pretty well last week, despite it being drizzly and rainy all week. We stayed in corn all week and so did most of our neighbors. On Thu…
We switched to beans and had a good week of combining. There is a lot of downed corn in the neighbors’ fields. Over the weekend we got anywher…
We switched to beans to start this week after a good week in corn last week, with pretty good yields where there is no disease. Fields that we…
Everybody is going with corn. They started last week. Corn yields are good, but not quite what people expected. Not many beans have been harve…
It seemed like it rained every day last week. Harvest was paused. As you drive the countryside, you will see combines sitting in unharvested f…
We had a rain delay on harvest. We just stated back yesterday and are still not finished. It’s been a long harvest, be we continue to be amaze…
After switching to soybeans, we were rained out this Friday with 16 acres left. The soybean yields are very high, but green stem has been a ba…
Harvest has been interrupted by rain a few times since my last report. I have been seeing corn plot yields from 230 to 280 bu./acre, depending…
Harvest has started. Many are finally in the field and shelling corn. Corn moistures have been abnormally dry. Yields coming from the south ha…
This week started with rain and now is ending the week with more rain. We were able to cut beans in the middle of the week. No tillage work ha…
The rain this week is testing all of us trying to get the crops harvested. Switching back and forth from corn to beans depending on the foreca…
We finished up corn with yields above average and beans are still good as well. We are getting rain this weekend and will slow harvest next we…
This week rain has slowed harvest down in our area. We had 1.5 inches of rain, and most farmers are letting the ground have time to dry before…
We had 1 to 3 inches of rain in our area this week. Harvest is picking up speed as it dries out after the rain. Most guys are happy with corn …
This week we dodged rain. We had a couple of small events early in the week that slowed progress a little. We got a couple of days in the midd…
Harvest rolls on. We got our corn finished up at the first of the week. We made our last pass with sprinkles hitting the windshield. It rained…
Harvest rolls on here on our farm. We got caught up on all the beans that we felt comfortable cutting midweek. We’ve been in the corn since th…
This week’s report is being submitted from the seat of the tractor running a grain cart. We have started harvest. Our beans are dry, so we are…
Our aim is to start harvest this week on our farm. We have beans that are ready, and the corn is a lot closer than we thought it would be at t…
It was cold Monday morning (Oct. 18). There’s a little bit of frost on the rooftops. We got 2 inches of rain on the farm, but it didn’t rain t…
We shelled corn last Tuesday and it was too wet; it was 18%. We were set to go today, at about 14%, but we’re looking at rain this week. We’re…
We’re going to try to start shelling a little bit of corn this week. We got about 0.9 inches of rain at the farm over the weekend. It’s not mu…
We’re getting closer to harvest, but we’re not in the field yet. Combines and tractors are ready. We could shell corn right now, but we like t…
We’re still working on grain bins, getting ready for harvest. They were talking heavy rains for Monday, but it looks like we’re not going to g…