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The month of January is rolling or sliding among, as a good share of the state gets to walk over the snowdrifts and skate on the ice-covered yards and ground. What made it bearable was that the December weather was so mild and warm that we seem to have avoided thirty...
It is the start of a brand new year and many areas with agriculture start with a clean slate. In many realms the slate is not clean and there are more unknowns that normal. There are lots of supply chain and input supply questions that we may not have final answers on...
The Christmas season is upon us and it is typically a time for families and relatives to gather and celebrate another year passing us by. We get to chat with siblings that live far away and see how the nieces, nephews and grandkids are doing. Here’s wishing all of you...
November is here and the green of summer is mostly gone as the fields turn to different shades of brown and the last of the leaves fall off the trees. Reports of snow to the north will become more common later in the month and we can say goodbye to another growing...
While we were hoping for rain every week during the entire growing season, the wish right now is for mostly sunny and dry weather so the crops can be harvested before the stalks collapse or before the unexpected early snowstorm buries the bean plants under a...
The last week of September is upon us and the days are getting shorter. Already several bursts of cooler air have moved into the northwestern states, giving those people warnings about the eventual movement into winter. For us though the weather has generally been dry...
Just as any person over the age of 65 remembers where they were on Nov 22nd, 1963. The broadcasts and telecasts told of happenings in Dallas that rocked the country and much of the free world. When you heard the date of Sept 11, 20001 the same sort of thoughts are...
Now that the end of the growing season and month of August are drawing to a close our opinions and evaluation of the crops and grain production carry more value. Potentials and estimates will become realities as we measure the yields when harvest starts. Through July...
The tightrope walk of the 2021 growing season continues. Finally, after weeks and months of waiting for widespread rains to fall in the Midwest we are seeing such moisture fall. Luckily this is happening early enough to benefit the seed fill on both major crops and...
Now that we have past the July 4th holiday weekend and the crop forecasters think they have good feel for the crop size of the corn and bean crops. On the producer side we recognize that what we consider normal with weather is not occurring in much of the Midwest. On...