Congratulations to Preston Fredrickson, $1500 winner of a Macon County Farm Bureau Foundation scholarship! Award was presented by Jennifer Fink on behalf of the MCFB Foundation trustees at the 2022 MF Awards Night tonight.
We got 0.25 inches of rain June 26-27 at our place. The county average was 0.3 inches. Corn and beans are growing well. Fungicide is being sprayed from the air and ground rigs are also running. Other activities include chemical…
Wheat harvest has begun in the area. High clearance sprayers were able to start applying nitrogen on corn Tuesday. Soybean fields are being sprayed with herbicides. We received 0.4 to 0.8 inches of rain June 25-26. In June, it rained…
It’s Mercer County Fair week. My wheat crop is ready to cut and the first tassels are starting to show! Corn and soybean crops look OK considering how much water they have seen recently. There are many waterlogged areas and…
What ties June 25, rocks and corn together? Hopefully, June 25 is the day that corn prices hit rock bottom for millennia. September corn was trading up into the $4.90 range just a little over two months ago before bottoming…
A deluge of rain fell June 28 at our 103rd family reunion totaling 0.6 inches. My June total was 5.5 inches. The 90-plus degree days and moisture has corn over my head and will soon tassel. Post spraying of herbicides…
Hot, hotter and hot! That sums up the last few days’ temperatures. Crops and weeds are growing extremely fast. The Japanese beetles have emerged from the soil and the lightning bugs have been putting on quite a show. Wheat harvest…