Corn fungicide applications continue just as stifling hot weather arrived, adding some stress during pollination. Hopefully we have enough moisture reserves in the soil to carry us a while because the forecast has definitely shifted toward hot and dry. Soybeans…
Scholarships
Scholarship Season
Scholarships presented by the Macon County Farm Bureau Foundation are now online at www.MaconCFB.org. Parents must be an MCFB member and student must be majoring in an agricultural-related field of study to be eligible to apply. Applications must be received by March 1.
Questions? Contact Jennifer Fink at 877.2436 or jennifer@maconcfb.org.
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Illinois Farm Bureau News
July 18, 2026
Just about everywhere you look there’s a plane, drone or helicopter spraying fungicide on cornfields. My first pass finished two weeks ago and appears to have stopped any developing tar spot, gray leaf spot and northern corn leaf blight. Most…
July 18, 2026
We only received 0.1 inches of rain last week. Planes are flying on fungicide this week on the corn as it is tasseling. Soybeans have closed the rows on 30-inch fields. Last week was the Warren County Fair so it…
July 18, 2026
Canadian wildfire smoke dominates the weather conversation right now. The Chicago area has some of the worst air quality in the world with over 900 fires burning north of the border. The wheat harvest is complete. Yields were OK, but…
July 18, 2026
We are entering the pollination period with plenty of heat and dwindling moisture supplies. The sand acres are starting to get that look about them with firing on the lower leaves and the majority of the plant rolling up. The…
July 18, 2026
Rain July 9 was 0.2 inches. A very hot week. Corn is silking. We had a drone apply fungicide on some of our fields just for safety’s sake. There were two fields he could not do because of the length…