This year was better than expected. I had some optimism early when we started chopping silage, but when we started harvesting dry grains, yiel…
Our manure pumpers are here and they are making good progress. They are almost half done hauling manure. We are vaccinating heifers today, so …
We haven’t done a lot fieldwork-wise, but we are still waiting on manure pumpers and they are pretty close here now. Everything got halted — i…
We have been preparing for winter. We’ve been moving our heifers out on the cover crops to let them graze — oats mainly. We are still doing re…
We are turning our heifers into our cover crop fields. The oats, rye and radishes have been looking really good. We got an inch of rain here t…
We are enjoying the mud here (Monday). It’s supposed to be breezy, but I don’t know if we are going to get out before rains again later this w…
We finished our corn harvest this last week. Our grain picked up some moisture after last week’s rains, but we just decided to finish it up an…
Most of the beans are out of the field in our area. A lot of corn is also getting done. We're getting close to being done on our farm. We had …
It’s been very busy in the neighborhood. Everyone has been out combining. We were able to finish up the soybeans this past week and get starte…
I’d say harvest in our area is in full swing. We got a chance to try some corn, and we are really surprised with the moisture, coming out arou…
We started combining soybeans and were able to get our early ones harvested. The moisture was great at 11.5%, but the yields were disappointin…
We had a good, dry week and finished up our earlage harvest and fifth crop of hay. It was a busy week, but grateful we got that done. The rain…
We are half done with our earlage. We made some progress this week on that and got a nice shower on Tuesday and Friday which should be a real …
We got a little more rain, and we were able to finish chopping our corn silage this week, as well as fall seeding of some alfalfa. Hopefully t…
We got a shot of rain Monday morning (Aug. 23). It was about an inch and a half. We have been chopping corn and some of the early corn is star…
Things have been dry. Crop conditions keep deteriorating. It’s good for getting work done with no delays. Today we have been opening up fields…
We didn’t get much rain last week — maybe less than a half inch — which is better than nothing but less than what we were hoping for. We are h…
This week really took a toll on our crops. There’s been some damage done to the corn already. A rain would definitely help on both crops, bean…
I’m starting to see the first signs of heat stress. Things don’t look terrible yet, but with the week looking us in the face, the next time we…
We got about ¾ of an inch of rain out of a Wednesday weather event. Some places had some damage, but we lucked out with no damage. There were …
J. Schanbacher farms corn, soybeans and alfalfa with his wife and parents in Benton County, near Atkins. In addition to the row crops, he also…
The weather has been pleasant for us and the livestock the last few days. We had a little rain over the weekend — I was hoping for more, but w…
It’s not too bad this week. We finally started to dry out after the rains. After a bit of scouting we decided to not spray the beans for some …
We ended somewhere between an inch and a half and 2 inches this week. Everything in our neighborhood, the crops look lush green. Even the weed…
We desperately needed that rain we got (Sunday). We had a little over an inch when it was all said and done. Hopefully there’s a little more c…
It’s been hot and dry and our crops and hay could sure use a shot of water. We did take advantage of the dry weather to put up our second crop…
We were able to spray our corn this week and had ideal conditions. Everyone else in the neighborhood had the same idea. Weed conditions were q…