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Just when we were thinking that Mother Nature was going to let us slip thru the winter without much below zero weather, we are now entering the coldest stretch we have seen to far. The temps across much of the state will drop into the minus 10 to 12 F range. A friend...
It is a new year following a year many of us hope to forget as our way of life was altered on many facets. Life for a high percent of the populace changed as the media focused 1,000 % of their time on creating fear and criticizing state and national leaders when they...
The last month of the year is nearing the end and then it’s on to 2021. We will be glad to see it over with. From the drought and the Derecho that hurt many towns, buildings, crops and trees, not seeing another big windstorm like that in our lifetimes could be okay....
The last month of the year is here as I sit writing this article. Dec, 7th is commemorated each year as it marks the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It was the event that pulled our country into WW2, which they had hoped to avoid. The blatant, dawn...
Sunday was November 22nd, the 57th anniversary of the assassination of JFK. I know that every person who were in any grade at school, even kindergarteners, remembers that day and of being told what had happened in Dallas early that afternoon. When discussing it with...
November is here and we have gotten the first tastes of winter of winter with a killing frost and a skiff of snow. Having a week or ten days of temps 20 degrees below normal was a shock at first, but they were not killer temps like we have had in recent Dec and...
The month is now more than half over and in review a huge amount of progress has been made with the harvest and tillage in preparation for the 2021 season. It has meant long hours with many of those days being quite warm, very dry and extremely windy. The apprehension...
October has arrived and with it the shorter days of fall can definitely be seen and felt. It now stays dark until 7Am and begins to get dark shortly after 7 PM and warmer clothing now feels good at both ends of the day. The leaves on our many trees are turning their...
This should be the week where statewide harvest begins in earnest. There were combines operating in both corn and beans last week depending on the maturity group of bean planted while there were also corn fields being harvested where the drought stressed the plants...
After the 2018 and 2019 seasons when planting was delayed for most Midwest crop producers and rain washed out some of their best laid plans they were hoping for a ‘normal’ season where the planting season went well, the GDUs were adequate, and the rainfall came at the...