Consider attending upcoming crop conferences

Only two more months left in the year and the warm weather will be back in only five or six months. So get used to wearing the winter jackets and coveralls for the near term. Although it is technically fall the first hints of winter paid us a visit and intend to stay....

Hopes for an Indian summer

  So how did everyone like this first taste of winter? A few different meteorologists have been predicting widely varying winter conditions. While one is saying the temps may drop and extreme degree after the first of November, others are saying the jet stream...

2017 growing season has been strange

Years ago the Grateful Dead rock group out of San Francisco released an album entitled “What a long strange trip this has been.” While we have yet to see how the last 2.5 months of the 2017 season turn out, a similar title could accurately describe this...

Rain slows the harvest

A few weeks ago it appeared that having the same problem with combine and field fires as in 2012 was going to become reality. Now after a huge and general front move through the state and much of the Midwest over the last weekend and drop two to five inches of rain...

Diacamba news, corn and soybean harvest

The year is now three-quarters over with as harvest gets a good start in northern areas and chugs on further south. This is usually a time to think back on the growing season and how things went very well and knowing that the chances of garnering a profit with the...