Many balers and sprayers took advantage of clear conditions recently. Soybeans that have been waterlogged had some reprieve from heavy rainfall this week. Fields look good overall, but too much rain too often has taken its toll on poorly drained fields. Temps and humidity were on the high si…
Marty Marr farms near New Berlin with his wife Sheila and two sons, Martin Jr. and Evan, raising corn, soybeans, hay and cattle. They also do some commercial hauling of various commodities. In recent years Marr served as a director in the Illinois Corn Growers Association and was president o…
Went for a drive Sunday and Monday that showed how much excessive rain has affected our crops. Yellow and lime-green crops everywhere we drove in the northern end (Route 80 and Route 39 South) of the state back to west central. It is definitely taking its toll on crop conditions in my view. …
Marty Marr farms near New Berlin with his wife Sheila and two sons, Martin Jr. and Evan, raising corn, soybeans, hay and cattle. In recent years Marr served as a director in the Illinois Corn Growers Association and was president of ICGA in 2022.
Storms rolled through the area — most of the severe storms went north and south of us with rainfall amounts 0.5 to 2 inches. Some fields, especially soybeans, have a waterlogged look and areas of yellowing. Much of the corn is shoulder high and is impressive with that beautiful luster summer…
2024 started off very slow for us and our immediate area. Some corn and beans were planted in April, but a lot was planted in May. Wet and cool conditions were to blame for the slow start. As the growing season pushed on into July, we were looking very good. As August came the rains stopped …
Luke Burling farms east of Carthage, growing corn, soybeans and hay alongside a cow/calf operation. The farm also consists of his dad and uncle. He and his wife Kortney have four children, Annie, 11, Brooks, 8, Ry, 3, and Ronnie, 10 months. Burling helps coach the Illini West Charger basebal…
Harvest finally wrapped up for us Saturday evening, just in time for the rain to hit our area. Not a lot of crops are left in the area — a few fields here or there. NH3 tanks started moving around on Friday and Saturday but not enough got done to make a real dent. We are going to take the we…
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel! We should wrap harvest up this week, and to say it’s been a grind is an understatement. Yields have been great. We did run into a certain hybrid that was affected heavily by aphids, and even with an insecticide pass yield was off 25-35 bushels. …
Harvest is starting to wind down in western Illinois. Pretty much all the beans are out and a pile of corn is out too. We have about 10 days of running left. Corn yields are still very good. Moisture is anywhere from 14-18%. Not much dirt work being done with it being so dry. A lot of fertil…
We wrapped up beans Friday evening. We will start back in on corn Monday and continue to chop away. Yields were a little disappointing as we got to our later-planted/later-maturity varieties. May-planted beans were 10-15 bushels off compared to our April-planted. Most farms will have their b…
Harvest is progressing quickly with the good weather. We did receive between five- to eight-tenths of rain on Thursday evening that gave us Friday morning to get caught up on cattle stuff and other odds and ends. We should finish up beans this week and get back into corn. Yields so far have …
Harvest is moving along nicely in our area. There has been a good mix of corn and beans taken out. Our corn is still running 20 to 24% but with very good yields. We started cutting beans on Wednesday, and so far those yields have been as expected. We look to get a good chunk of beans out this week.
Harvest is in full swing in our area. A lot of beans have been cut, and I’m guessing the corn will start coming out this week. Lime is being staged in preparation for fall work. We started shelling our corn, which was planted in May. Yields are very good, but the corn is 24-28% moisture stil…
Harvest is slowly starting in our area. Guys to the south have done a fair amount of both crops. North of Carthage there has been little done — a few fields here and there. We look to get started on corn Wednesday or Thursday. Yield reports so far have been very good, so that is promising!
Harvest has slowly begun in our area and will continue to ramp up over the next week. We are eye balling next week before we even think of starting. Early yield reports sound very promising. We are still getting equipment ready and preparing to chop silage in the next few days.
Silage choppers got rolling last week on a few guys in our area. Our silage corn will probably need to be cut next week as the May corn nears black layer. April corn will probably black layer this week. April-planted beans are starting to turn. I could see a few guys, including us, cut beans…
Crops are progressing nicely. Most of our corn is beginning to dent and has pretty good potential. I have seen aphids and some disease starting to pop up in the upper canopy. Beans look great but seeing some SDS and other diseases starting to fire up. Still a ways to go before combines to st…
Crops are looking very good with a lot of potential in western Illinois. This cool weather has come at a perfect time as the corn is R4-R5 range. Beans are beginning to fill pods. We have another chance of rain at the end of the week. I have seen some disease starting to pop up though in som…
Crops got a good boost this past week with plenty of moisture! They received anywhere from 3-6 inches of rain. Corn has some great potential and beans are starting to look very good in our area. We are starting to get harvest equipment ready this week and take advantage of the cooler weather.
Crops are progressing nicely. We have received around 1.5 inches of rain on about every farm the last week, with some receiving 2.5-plus. Potential is definitely there, as long as we can hold any disease and/or insects back.
Crops are looking very good, and the rains we received over the last 10-14 days have helped tremendously. All of our corn is tasseled, and we should be wrapped up with fungicide on corn and beans by the end of the week. I haven’t looked at any ears yet, but from the road it looks like we hav…
We received anywhere from 2-5 inches of rain in our area over the last seven days. It was very welcome and came great. Early corn is fully tasseled, and the later corn is getting very close. Soybeans are progressing nicely. Not a lot of insect or disease pressure on anything yet, but I’m sur…
Rain was a dud over the weekend for us in central Hancock County. With projections in the three-fourths to 1-inch range, we only received a quarter inch. Airplanes were buzzing around this weekend applying fungicide to the early-planted corn. Stuff still looks pretty good, all things considered.
It is very dry in our area. The rains forecasted for Saturday night were a dud for us. The later-planted crops could really use a drink to shoot it into second gear. Everything has really seemed to slow down because of the drought stress. The early-planted corn has started to throw tassels a…
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