This was a rough year. Our region was in the severe drought area a lot of the summer. Rainfall was nine inches less than normal. Everything lo…
I thought everyone was wrapped up, but Wednesday (Nov. 18) it looked like everyone was out in the field. I would say fall field work should be…
There are a few finishing tillage and anhydrous, but I think the majority of farmers are done if they were going to do it. Most of the manure …
Things are starting to slow down here, and not just because of the moisture and cold temperatures at the beginning of the week. Last week was …
We had 2 inches of snow over the weekend, which will slow down harvest for a couple of days. I would say 25-30% of the corn is still in the fi…
We finished up harvest late last week. By the end, corn was coming out of the field at 13.5% moisture. The fall tillage is still in progress. …
We had about 0.8 inches of rain Sunday night. Harvest is moving quickly. We are finished with beans and have two fields of corn left, so we sh…
It’s been a good week of harvesting, and this week looks to be favorable, too. The majority of soybeans are out in the area. Yields were extre…
Harvest is in full swing here. Most are working on beans, but a few corn fields have been harvested. Bean yields are very inconsistent — some …
Harvest has started. Most are working on beans, although a few are harvesting corn. I would say about half of the farmers have started, and wi…
Everything is really starting to turn, and we could possibly see some soybeans harvested this week. We had from three to 3.5 inches of rain la…
Both corn and beans are progressing fast. There is a lot of corn being chopped for cattle feed. Some of the fields that had a lot of wind and …
We are still dry. The soybeans are starting to turn. The cattle guys have started chopping silage and earlage, especially in fields that got a…
It’s been very dry and very hot. Some silage is being chopped in fields where they had hail damage or where it’s just been too dry. The corn i…
We are on the lucky side of the state — no damage to our farm, but you don’t have to go very far to the east to see lots of hail and wind dama…
Some of the area had hail and high winds this morning (Monday). We did get some rain last week, and anything we get from here on should really…
We finally caught some rain, including 0.7 inches Saturday. The corn looks really good yet, but some places in the area are showing stress. Th…
We finally caught a good shower Sunday night, with around a half-inch of rain here. We really needed it. North of here they didn’t get any rai…
We are very dry here – just rained enough to dampen the sidewalk this morning (Monday). We are really starting to see drought stress with the …
It’s really starting to get dry – we missed all the rain last week. The crops still look pretty good considering how dry it is. The corn is al…
It has been hot and dry here. Despite that, everything looks pretty good. We are spraying corn fungicide this morning (Monday). We usually spr…
The half-inch of rain we got June 22 is helping us through the week. We have scouted for insects but there isn’t much out there yet. Mostly we…
It was super hot and windy last week from about Monday through Thursday, and then we got three-tenths of an inch of rain Thursday and that hel…
Things look pretty good here, but we will see how they look after the hot and windy week ahead of us. The rye has been chopped and corn plante…
We are looking really good here. The corn that was yellow really took off with the hot weather. There has been quite a bit of post-emerge corn…
Things look pretty good. Some of the corn did turn yellow the last couple of days, but it should bounce back. We’ve had about an inch of rain …
There is not much going on around here. It’s been cloudy with some drizzle most of today (May 22). The soybeans are finally popping through a …