As I reflect on the past season, it was a good year for crops in my area. Spring brought immediate heat that pushed the corn and beans up quic…
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It almost feels like I should be putting my Christmas decorations up as there’s about an inch of snow scattered throughout the fields and the …
Fall has quickly turned to winter in the past few days. I’m hoping this is more of a temporary weather pattern and not the start to the cold s…
This past week saw a lot of fertilizer applied and some tillage work completed ahead of the Friday/Saturday rain. Early-planted cover crops ar…
Not a lot of crops left to watch as harvest seems to be wrapping up for most. The corn yields in our area ended up really good. Longer-season …
2022 was a really good year for us. We did start planting a couple weeks later than recent years, starting planting on May 11 and finished aro…
Well, I think summertime is over. We had about an inch of snow this week. All of the fertilizer companies are still busy getting fields fed fo…
Last week was perfect harvest weather to let us get finished. It's always a great feeling to be done. Fertilizer companies are taking advantag…
Corn was the word of the week. Elevators have had lines. Friday night/Saturday, we had half an inch of rain and some crazy wind. Thankfully it…
Last week brought some much-needed rain — 1.4 inches. Things were so dry, fires were a big concern. That only kept us out of the fields one da…
2022 was year to remember. In the spring, on some of our south farms we received more rain in a 48-hour period than we did all of July, August…
Progress was slowed this week due to a snow/rain event. Fall work is progressing nicely and hopefully majority will be done by the end of next…
Anhydrous was in full swing last week for about everyone in the area as weather turned cooler. Some guys are finished and some are just gettin…
Harvest ended for us on Tuesday of last week. We spent the rest of the week doing tillage, cleaning up the combines and getting ready for anhy…
Harvest progress was slowed last week due to a few rain events. Tillage and fall work continues to progress as the ground becomes fit. More an…
2022 was no different than any other year. There are challenges, there are rewards, trials and tribulations as with anything. The good Lord bl…
McLean County has wrapped up with harvest for the most part. Most fields have been worked on regarding tillage, seeding, fertilizing or tiling…
Almost all fields have been harvested in central Illinois. The race has begun to cross off any field work before temperatures become an issue …
I am pleased to report we finished harvest early this past week. Yields were surprising for both corn and soybeans. We should not have been bl…
Tillage and cover crop seeding are in full swing. We are currently in the process of wrapping up corn harvest, only pausing with a slight rain…
2022 is not a growing year I will soon forget. We thankfully had good moisture in the spring, and even planted a little later than usual becau…
The weather is bitterly cold, but field work continues. As much as I love getting all this work done, we desperately need some moisture. Being…
The weather has officially broke, and it is quite freezing out! But thankfully we are still able to continue tiling until we start getting dee…
Not much crop is left in the area and field work is a full go. Cover crops have emerged, tile is going in, fields are getting chiseled, and st…
Harvest is a wrap! Finished up last week, and it seems like most of the area is in the same position. Seems to be good timing. It has been a s…
The overriding theme for the year has been one of patience. For the first time since 2019 we had to have patience in getting the crop out, the…
Another week, another project knocked off the never-ending to-do list. All the cattle have officially been moved to their winter pastures and …
From the mid-70s to the mid-30s in an instant, and snow accumulation of over an inch in less than a week’s time. This made for a rather quick …
And just like that #Harvest 2022 is over! This harvest will be one for the memory books in terms of the sheer number of uninterrupted working …
I have to say we must be living right in southern Illinois as we got two rains in one week. We started off the week with 0.9 inches, then rece…
We started 2022 anticipating that it wasn’t going to be like last year. 2021 was an easy year except for deciding where to go with all the cro…
It was only a one-season week this week and that season was winter. We woke Saturday morning to 6-plus inches of snow on the ground. It really…
Setting records this past week in more ways than one. We were close to or maybe setting a couple new high temperatures. With the warm weather …
We received just about the perfect amount of rain to start the week. Field work was put on hold for a couple days, but that just gave us enoug…
Rains showed up this week and they were well-received. The neighborhood is looking pretty bare. The landscaping is mowed off and has opened up…
We are fortunate in this area as we have seen good crops and good prices this year. Our farm had very good crops, although they were not the b…
With harvest completed, I have been out and about more and have been able to talk with more farmers in the area. The common theme is we are ve…
Last week’s weather was great for November until Friday. Saturday, we woke up to snow on the ground. We did not expect the snow, as the foreca…
Harvest is winding down in our area with a few acres of corn left in the field. We finished harvest this week on our farm and are looking to d…
Around our area it looks like 95% percent of the beans are cut and 75% of the corn is shelled. Yields have been very good, according to the fa…
The year started out well. We got some work done in early April, though no crops were planted here yet. May turned into a busy month with mini…
I think for the most part harvest is close to being wrapped up. I got COVID-19 over the weekend, so haven't left the house since. …
We finished fall tillage around noon on Thursday, Nov. 10, then got the ripper washed and put away before it got cold. We were able to do some…
We finished 2022 harvest Tuesday, Nov. 1, at about 3:30 p.m. It was a good feeling. We got 0.65 inches of rain Saturday morning. We’re hoping …
We made very good progress in the cornfield. We had an inch of rain one day — the first really rainy day in a while. We have 79 acres left as …
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