Finished up April-planted corn Thursday and switched back to cut some beans before the rain. Overall, I’m pretty happy with our early corn yields. Hopefully the June planted stuff has some yield in it. Beans are definitely showing which areas…
Summer Ag Class
Nice piece on Ag in the Classroom's Summer Ag Class for area teachers last week! Thanks again to all that attended this year's event.
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October 3, 2026
I’m writing this on the first day of October and it’s my 15th wedding anniversary! Harvest is moving along nicely. I finished beans except for my double crop and have moved into corn. Rain on Thursday was welcome. I don’t…
October 3, 2026
We are in October but I hate to say that quite a bit of the crop is still out there. Besides a couple here and there, not too many have been able to roll quite yet. In our neighborhood of…
October 3, 2026
No rain last week until Thursday evening with 0.75 inches at our place. It’s really dry and lots of crops were harvested. We are about 65% harvested for corn and beans. Corn is better than expected on most fields (+10%)…
October 3, 2026
Last week was favorable for harvest progress. LOTS of bean acres were taken out since we had a couple mornings with little to no dew, so we were cutting beans before 9 a.m.! We finished our bean harvest Thursday and…
October 3, 2026
Harvest is in “full bunny” mode. If you think of the throttle on a piece of farm equipment, you will understand. The start of the week brought great bean cutting weather, finally. My guess is harvest is over 60% done…