Adding Insult to Injury

Adding Insult to Injury

Hi Everyone, For many of us farmers, it seems like the hits just keep coming this year. If it’s not the weather, it’s crop reports that seem contradictory to our intuition. Although a leisurely country drive now shows many of the late planted...

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The “Fat Kids” Picture

The “Fat Kids” Picture

Before you join in with my wife and tell me I need to work on my political-correctness skills, please understand that I LOVE my “Fat Kids.” You see, my fat kids are what I refer to as my healthiest, biggest, and most robust plants in my fields...

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Scouting for Insects and Disease

Scouting for Insects and Disease

It’s 94 degrees outside as I sit here in my office wondering how this may be affecting the start of this growing season. One thing for sure, is that we need to take into account the environment these plants are growing in before scouting...

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Scouting for Emergence

Scouting for Emergence

We are starting to get our first corn out of the ground here on our home farm! We  planted the last day of April, with soil temps barely reaching 50 degrees, but the corn benefited from the warm weather that followed. I am now using my thermal...

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