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October, with its harvest moons, is upon us. It will be the month when our two major crops will be harvested and put into storage until each farmer finds a home for it, be it for feed on a local level, moved to an ethanol plant within easy driving distance, railed to...
Mid-September has arrived. Most sections in the Midwest had the majority of crop acres whimper to the finish line. Most areas within the cornbelt no significant rain to help the soybean crop finish enlarging the bean size. We can say that it was another season had no...
September has arrived and with it the days are getting shorter, the fall harvest season is getting closer and the birds that congregate for their journey to their southern homes have taken off already. I would normally say that the days are cooling off, but not yet....
The days are becoming noticeably shorter and the crops are advancing in what has become a topsy turvy growing season. Everything seemed out-of-whack from the end of winter and the start of the planting season, to what we have in the field now. This was following the...
What a summer and what a growing season. Does anyone know what to expect next? Actually, keen observers recognize that up until now it has been mostly a cookie cutter repeat of the last three seasons. Unseasonable warm in early to mid-April, then it dropped into the...
The summer and season is continuing at a very rapid pace. In most cases the corn crop in most places reached knee high or taller by July 3rd. In fact, there were tassels poking up in a number of commercial fields with silks soon to emerge. In my gardens the mid-April...
Don’t look now but we are approaching the longest day of the, June 21st. This is when soybean plants are normally triggered to start flowering if they have reached the V5 growth stage. At this point a sizeable percentage of the bean plants are behind that schedule due...
We are now getting into the important main part of the growing season. Most of the corn crop in in the V2 to V4 growth stage. The largest corn I have been in so far was actually near Fremont, NE at late V5. So far outguessing the weather has been near impossible....
Every year is different as to the planting season, moisture amounts and how normal, cooler than or warmer than normal the environmental conditions are. The 2023 planting is now officially lasting longer than the average season, and due to the extended cool temps and...
I am writing this on Sunday May 7th, so things that may be apparent later in the week remain an unknown by Sunday morning. Here goes: In Television Land over the last fifty years, we have seen many game shows where participants are asked to use their instinct or luck...