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For one to two months now we have peered into the western sky or onto a radar map to see when our next major rains would arrive. For a high % of the people involved in farming, other profession or activity directly dependent on mother nature to deliver our needed...
Typically, mid thru late July is the time for the county fairs, with their livestock exhibits and grandstand entertainment, leading up the state fair and finally the Clay Country extravaganza. But not this year. Already the county fairs, state fair and Farm Progress...
And a belated Happy July 4th to everyone. In most years many towns around the Midwest have their own small town parades and celebrations. Many floats, marching bands, patriotic floats, town queens, cake walks, bingo games, etc. are all things that many of us grew up...
The longest daylight hour day of the year is here and with it come a few benchmarks. The sun is supposed to rise at 5:45 and set at 8:49. At 42 degrees latitude that gives us 15 hours and 4 minutes of sun up conditions. The longer days will trigger soybean plants to...
Mid-June is here and we are marching towards July, with knee high by July 4th. That is still the benchmark from being on or ahead of schedule for corn development in the Midwest. When growers were going full bore planting corn and beans it seemed the crop was going to...
Thus ended the first week of June, 2020. All seven days were suitable for fieldwork, which let a lot of work get completed and the crops noticeably add height and development stages. A few areas had heavy rain and a few of those experienced damaging hail where the...
So how would everyone rate the spring, the 2020 planting season, the condition of the crop? All in all, we would have to give it an A for most of the state. In parts of NE and MO farmers are still struggling to get planting completed. So we have reasons to feel...
As we enter the last week of May we can all think of how in the farming community not much has changed in that as you prepared machinery for the spring, figured out crop management plans, booked product, and figured out the jobs for each person in your operation, not...
Another week of the 2020 planting season has passed and basically it was a good week after our warmup finally arrived. Most farmers in the state lucked out by just a few degrees as temps in different parts of the state and Midwest had one of our most severe late...
Back into the deep freeze was the message for part of the last week. Aren’t Polar Vortexes supposed to move thru and bring the bone chilling weather during the winter? So what one or two of them doing marching across much of the country in the second week of May. We...