What a difference last week made in the planting progress here in Central Illinois and across many areas of the corn belt. Much of the corn in my area has been planted with a slug of beans being put in the ground much of last week through this week. Unfortunately,...
Middle of June already! In the last week I have seen corn finished being planted and beans going in the ground at a very brisk pace. There are going to be a lot of decisions made in the next two weeks of how to manage these late crops. The biggest decision is going to...
Got into the field again on June 4 to plant beans. This field had been in corn last year, with a cereal rye cover planted right after harvest. Since we were getting a lot of rain the second half of May, there was a delay of three weeks to get the cover crop rolled and...
It’s been said that a “picture is worth a thousand words”. Really don’t have to say anything else with this picture! This is from the no till field that I wrote about back on April 25. It was planted into following a burn down of a cereal rye cover crop. We did plant...
