Wheat crop update
There are two distinct wheat crops growing in Southern Illinois this spring. The distinction is in how they have been managed. Those who have managed their wheat according to the weather and growth...
View ArticleImpromptu Crop Tour
Saturday we loaded up in the truck and struck out for Bloomington, IL to pick up an item I had purchased. We drove up I -57 through Effingham, Mattoon, Champaign then took I-74 over to Bloomington....
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My Best Corn of 2012? Most Likely.
Today while loading some wheat I went out into one of my corn fields to look around. I didn’t really want to, but the curiosity was getting to me. Things were as I expected them to be, or maybe even...
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Some of my worst corn
Well I did it last night. I got brave enough or mad enough to walk into some of the worst looking corn I have. The same field the Farm Progress video was shot in. Here are the results: 5 random ears...
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Corn Crop Update
Took a few weeks off, as I have been on the summer version of the rubber chicken and roast beef meeting circuit. Lots of info was picked up at most of the meetings with one topic being overdone, and...
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Using an IPAD for soil sampling.
At the end of 2012 I began testing an Apple Ipad with GIS Roam for pulling soil samples. Initial testing indicated that this platform and software is every-bit as good for GPS directed soil sampling...
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Book Review: The Art of Balancing Soil Nutrients.
In the recent past, I read a lot of books. I mean, back a couple years ago I was reading two or three books at a time. I would pick one up and read until my head got full then I would pick up another...
View ArticleMeeting Notes From This Winter
A long and busy schedule of meetings in January is now over, thank goodness. I am worn out. I think I was on the road for meetings over half the month of January and into the first of February. There...
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Soil Sample Quiz
Last week I mapped and soil sampled a farm that had been in CRP for many, many years. I think it has been in two sign ups, so about 20 years. There was also a 20 acre bean field across the road that...
View ArticleSoybean Harvest 2013 Has Started
Well a first for us is that we are cutting soybeans before we shell any corn. Corn was still running in the high 20′s for moisture but the beans were dry. So we went to the bean field. I shot about 2...
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