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Another year in the books. Unprecedented levels of spring tillage were completed ahead of a relatively concise planting season. We had a cold …
For every day that's been calm, we've had several days where doors have just about flown away in the wind. Fall tillage is wrapping up, someth…
Plowing has continued. We're very close to being done for the season. We've seen some compaction issues on side hills that have made for some …
I'm pleased to announce that we finished combining corn yesterday afternoon. Dad would be doing a jig if he didn't creak so much. I'd estimate…
This is the time of year, while harvesting the last fields, I begin to assess what worked and what we may change for the next growing season. …
In the week ending Nov. 20, there are a few remaining fields of corn left in our area. We finished delivering our soybeans to the river on Wed…
There are some fields left to harvest, mostly corn but an odd field here or there of double-crop beans. Lots of tillage, fertilizer and lime a…
The first week of November was another dry beautiful week of harvest weather with above average temperatures and sunshine. The new bin is fini…
2020. What a year. We started off wet and very cool through the entire month of June and into July, but when it switched, it did it all at onc…
Tiling, dirt work and strip tilling all going on while conditions are great this week. We should be more prepared for spring than we have been…
A little more of a fall feel to this past weekend sandwiched between some really nice weather. Another warm, dry week ahead will allow more ti…
There is more going on the past 10 days than so far this fall. There are tractors in almost every field and semis with anhydrous tankers are g…
Hello from central Illinois! We didn't have as good of a crop as we were used to here locally, but I am thankful for the higher prices. I am o…
Hello from central Illinois. This beautiful weather has allowed lots of tillage, fertilizer and dirt work to get done. Another advantage of th…
Hello from central Illinois. Tillage is done for us and lots of neighbors are wrapping up and finishing fertilizer. The forecast looks great l…
Hello from central Illinois. This weather has been wonderful to get fall work done. I'm currently spreading the last load of fertilizer on cor…
The crops are barely out of the field, but attention needs to turn to 2021 seed and herbicide inputs. With most yield trial information publi…
The crops are barely out of the field, but attention needs to turn to 2021 seed and herbicide inputs. With most yield trial information publis…
Crops harvested? Check. Fertilizer and lime applied? Check. Soil preparation for next spring completed? Check. Machinery repaired, washed and …
As a CropWatch “reporter,” I take great joy in bringing you my comments for the second week of November. The forecast is sunny, warm, and dry.…
In early April we started out planting corn in great conditions. A three-week cold and wet period slowed corn emergence. However, most of our …
I still see a small amount of fall tillage getting finished up in our area. The wheat crop continues to progress with most plants starting to …
We had perfect weather to continue to work on fall herbicide and fertilizer applications. We also have been able to get a lot of soil testing …
We had a great week of weather to finish up harvest. We will continue to focus on spreading lime and fertilizer and applying fall chemicals. T…
What a year this has been. We started out planting corn in early April and then it turned out cold and we had seed that sat in the ground for…
Conditions this week allowed for tillage to continue. It has warmed up a lot also. As I sit in the deer stand for the opening weekend of the f…
Most all crops are out in our area. There are farmers wrapping up tillage and wheat still being drilled. The first part of the week had starte…
Lots of harvesting finishing up in our area. No rain, and it has gotten warm and dry, with highs in the 70s most of the week. A lot of guys ar…
Other than being cold and wet when crops were being planted here last spring, the season turned out fairly well, for those who did not take th…
Some people in the area would probably like to do some tillage yet. We had a good rain last weekend and will probably get a good rain again th…
We are getting manure hauled out of the barn. We got rained out Saturday. Washed up the combine, put on some fertilizer and had some vertical …
We are doing livestock work, but in our area a few things are happening. A few guys are still harvesting. Some anhydrous and dry fertilizer is…
It rained about two inches Saturday afternoon and overnight (Nov. 14), so it is good that most of the crops in Monroe County have been harvest…
We had a very good season, with great weather and great yields. The weather allowed us to get a lot of dirt work done. Mainly, we fixed waterw…
It's been a great year, all-around good yields and now prices to boot. Still continuing to get more dirt work done and make more improvements.…
Not much to report here. We got an inch of rain Saturday, but the wind blew hard all day yesterday, so we'll be back to dirt work Tuesday. Got…
We are going to wrap up harvest Saturday (Nov. 7). It's been a very smooth and bountiful harvest. Going to start cleaning up equipment, trim m…