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The final CropWatch report is here, and it’s been an absolute pleasure sharing all the fun happenings that have taken place throughout the 202…
Harvest is ending for a few of us here in the Northwest. Tillage, dry fertilizer and anhydrous applications are going strong throughout the co…
The temperatures really cooled off over the last half of the week. We’ve had cloud-covered days with rain and a few snowflakes! Quite a few fa…
We’ve had a beautiful week for field work here in the Northwest! Quite a few farmers have been working diligently to get the remainder of thei…
Greetings from the northwest corner of the state, where 4-inch depth bare-ground temperature was 40.2 degrees this morning. We had another coo…
Looking back, 2021 was a decent year for our area. While we were drier than we wanted to be in August, overall we had consistent moisture thro…
It has been a roller coaster week weather wise. We started cold and rainy but quickly warmed up, just for another cold front to come through a…
What a week! Many were able to finish harvest around us including ourselves. Conditions to do beans were great on Sunday and Monday. Rain came…
Another week of harvest around here. Many wrapped up corn, beans or both, while everyone else marched to the finish. Most farmers have under 1…
Not much action this week. We had nearly 5 inches of rain Sunday into Monday and another inch plus on Thursday into Friday. We had a few frost…
The word for 2021 is “variable.” The season started off with several good runs of planting, but it turned cold and wet after each one. Most of…
This week was more of the same as last week. A lot of anhydrous and tillage is getting done. We have had a great fall so far, and it looks to …
Last week was a really good week for tillage and anhydrous until we received a little shower on Thursday. The retailers were busy running anhy…
Most people who had crops to get out finished last week or over the weekend in this area. Most people are doing tillage and putting on anhydro…
We had between a half and one inch of rain last week, and that kept guys out of bean fields. Guys who had some corn left were able to run for …
The 2021 growing seasons presented unprecedented challenges and unprecedented opportunities for our small farm. I experienced two 10-inch rain…
This past week brought decent weather to continue with fall field work. A few beans are still needing to be cut. In between field work, I and …
This past week I hammered on beans for a neighbor again. We got rained out before we got done so we will be waiting to clean up the equipment …
I got one neighbor’s corn done this past week and started in on another’s beans. The weather is great for bean cutting and a lot of machines a…
This past week we accumulated around 5 inches of rain. We are looking forward to the dry forecast. I used the past week to clean up my books, …
It seemed like an awfully long year. We planted in three different months because of rain delays and finished planting season in the first par…
Hopefully we get a couple more good days this week to finish corn harvest for the season. Beans in this area are getting pretty well wrapped u…
We had a few good days early in the week. Wednesday got four-tenths of rain. It slowed us down, but we got back in the field for a few days un…
We got started on corn again in the middle of the week and switched to beans on the weekend. We still have some beans left and some corn. Hope…
Last week was a bust. We didn’t do a thing as far as harvesting goes. We had 4 inches of rain over the weekend and Thursday and Friday more ca…
If there was one thing that I will always remember about the 2022 season, it would be the constant rain. Despite heavy rains in early April, w…
Again, many are wrapping up harvest, with some spraying burndown herbicides. More and more have made the decision to put on anhydrous, but to …
Many are finishing up with harvest. We were able to get some tillage before more rain came again. There are many anhydrous tanks on the move a…
It has finally dried up and many are trying to take this opportunity to finish up harvest, and it has been nice to see many farmers helping ot…
We could have got some spraying and harvesting done midweek, but then it rained again. There has been no activity in the fields until it dries…
This season we had some challenges, but crops emerged good and did well throughout the growing season. We were blessed with very good yields w…
Had a good week of tillage work and ditches. We’re still hoping to spread some lime on a few fields, but it just depends on the weather. Most …
We are finishing tillage work, and I have to admit, some of the fields were wet but we had to get over it. Most guys are at the end of harvest…
We are still looking for dry ground to work. Soils are still heavy but are getting better. No rain in the forecast until late next week. Still…
We were able to do some tillage work in the early part of the week. Rain has started here at the end of the week and is forecast to rain on th…
This year on our farm seemed to echo the past few: unpredictable. Planting went well — we covered a lot of acres in a little period of time. W…
We wrapped up harvest on our farm this week. I think there may be a few neighbors with some crop in the field, but for the most part, I think …
We did not get done before the rain. We got about seven-tenths of an inch on Thursday night and ground us to a halt once again. We got back in…
This week saw more progress on our farm. Started cutting some double-crop beans just to get on drier ground. They are proving to be very good …
This week had us sitting watching rain. We had 4 inches or so altogether. With the 10-day outlook it appears we will be able to get back after…
Planting was unusually late this year. We were pushing insurance dates pretty hard, which was June 20 for corn. This global warming thing is r…
We finished corn Thursday. All my guys deer hunt, so we’re taking a couple of days off. We have about 500 to 600 acres of soybeans to cut and …
We got rained out Sunday, but we’re getting back to shelling corn. We should finish this week. We still have 1,000 acres of beans to cut. The …
We’re cutting beans as hard as we can go. We still have about a third of our corn to harvest. But we’re trying to take advantage of this good …
We’re getting ready to start cutting beans this week. We’re harvesting what is probably the best corn crops we’ve ever had. We’re about two-th…