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…
An enormous amount of corn was harvested this week. Weather was 10 degrees below normal and windy. There are a few fields of soybeans remainin…
In the week ending Oct. 25, we received a total of 2.3 inches of rain, delaying harvest one day due to the previous weeks of dry conditions. I…
Saturday we completed soybean harvest, with the strip tilling following on Sunday. We can now focus totally on corn. Lots of reports of 14-19%…
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Warmer than normal conditions afforded a flurry of soybean harvesting. We are pleased with yields ranging from 45-72 bu./acre. One farmer comp…
Rainfall for the week ending Oct. 4 was 0.7 inches. We combined corn this week since no soybeans are fit. Corn yields are excellent ranging fr…
Another dry week here in northeastern Illinois as fall arrives. Harvest began last Friday, starting with 105-day corn testing 22%. Farm yielde…
The week ending Sept. 20 was a cool, dry week which has pushed harvest closer. We had neighbors harvest corn and soybeans in the area. Corn wa…
In the week ending Sept. 13, we received 2.2 inches of rain. With the return of cooler wet weather, we will put off harvest until early Octobe…
Sept. 1 produced a range of 0.4 to 1.7 inches of rain on our farms. This moisture will increase seed size on soybeans. Corn test weights will …
The week ending Aug. 30 was a hot dry week here, as a result no rain to fill out the soybeans. They say the month for rain for corn is July, a…
We continued to ready equipment for the fall. Soybeans could use a rain. Yield checks on corn look promising. Looking forward to the arrival o…
For the week ending Aug. 16, we received 0.8 inches of rain. On Aug. 10 a devastating storm with high winds referred to as a derecho affected…
For the week ending Aug. 9, cooler drier weather assisted crops to progress towards maturity. Double-crop soybeans have been post sprayed. We …
In the week ending Aug. 2 we had a total of 0.3 of an inch of rain. We finished spraying fungicide and insecticide on soybeans and some herbic…
We received 0.2 inches of rain in the week ending July 26, completed corn fungicide application and began fungicide/insecticide on our soybean…
For the week ending July 19, we received, on average, 2.5 inches but there were several spots where fields received in excess of 4 inches. An…
We received 2.3 inches of rain, a great growing week for the week ending July 12. Some corn will be tasseling. Temperatures will be more mode…
Since our last posting we have received one inch of rain. This will be beneficial as 90-degree daily heat is forecast for this week. We finish…
We received anywhere from 0.8 to 2.5 inches of rain this week on area farms, with water again sitting in replanted sloughs, but not complainin…
During the week ending June 20, we received 0.2 to 0.75 inches of rain in popup showers. With 90-degree temperatures this week, we could use a…
We received 1.1 inches of rain on Wednesday from the remnants of Tropical Storm Cristobal. This has helped the emergence of the latest planted…
Finally a week of sunshine, heat and no rain. We were able to finish planting and re-planting corn and beans on June 2. About 15% of our corn …
We were able to finish spraying the corn in less than ideal conditions. With all the wet weather, tile put in 50 years ago is starting to fail…