We finished fall tillage and fall fertilizer applications. We have wrapped up field work. We’re waiting on warm days later this week to wash up equipment and put it away for winter. Overall, it was a year of peaks and valleys. Happy with the early growth and good start, but disappointed in h…
Josh Henik farms in Linn County between Mount Vernon and Solon with his wife, Katelyn, and his dad, John, along with guidance from his grandfather, Roland. They have a 700-acre row crop farm split about 50% corn and 50% soybeans. They also tend to a few head of cattle. Josh is an ag professo…
I started fall tillage and got fertilizer on about half of it. We’re making repairs among after-harvest duties. Beans and corn wrapped up for about a week with a little shower early last week. Still got tillage to do. We have had good yields. The farm average corn yield hit 250 bu./acre. Mea…
I finished corn and baled some stalks to wrap up harvest 2025. Now we’re preparing for post-harvest tillage and fall fertilizer. Our work with cattle went good, and they’re set to be gone and we’ll start with some new ones.
We’ll wrap up harvest with corn this week with about 100 acres left to get. It’s good to have so much done A little rain didn’t slow down corn. Yields look good for us with 220 bu./acre on the low side and up to 280 on areas sprayed with fungicide. I might start some fall tillage this week. …
We wrapped up harvesting beans and moved on to corn yesterday (Oct. 12). It’s really dried down a lot — from 24% to 15% in a couple of weeks. We’ll keep plugging away at harvesting corn — maybe 70% left to do. We’re seeing yields of 250 plus for those that got fungicide on it. We may work th…
It’s sprinkling and I hear more rain is coming today. We are about 70-80% done harvesting beans. Yields are pretty good, ranging 60-80 bu./acre, but most of it closer to 70-80 bu./acre for field averages. By mid-week, we’ll finish beans and switch back over to harvesting corn.
We had a warm week and we’re getting another one. We got in the field for corn harvesting at Kirkwood Community College and at home. All equipment is working as it is supposed to do. We’ll start on beans this week — hoping to see decent bean yields. Corn yields show a yield difference of abo…
We got a little bit, but most of the rain missed us. More combines will roll out this week. Some farmers might switch to combining beans, but so far I’ve only seen corn combining. We’ve been sweeping out bins and a few other last-minute chores to get ready to harvest.
It’s been hot. I checked Thursday with hand shelling. One field is down to 25% moisture. We maybe start combining this or next week. On Wednesday and Thursday we’ll see what the weather does, as there may be rain coming. Beans are turning color this past week. Our last cutting of hay is done…
Corn’s starting to dry down pretty fast in some spots. I drove from here to Ames to the football game this weekend and there are definitely fields that are pretty dry, and that could be from a shortage of nitrogen or southern rust. Corn looks pretty good all things considered on our farm. I …
We’re getting to the last of the bins. We cleaned the last few loads and took them to ADM and Cargill. We’re getting harvest equipment ready to go. Disease progressed fast in fields. We are maybe starting an earlier harvest than planned. We fixed augers this week. Additionally, I hosted abou…
Weather was good and cooled down nicely at the end of the week. Fields are dried out. All that’s taken pressure off crops from heat. I need to get back in the field. Diseases are progressing pretty harsh through some area fields. It’s not a disaster, just more pressure. That effect could be …
We made a trip to the State Fair and worked on equipment to get ready for fall. We’re wet but not swamped, as we got about half to 1 inch of rain every two to three days in the last week. It’s humid. Crops are showing some stress from diseases and we’ve sprayed fungicide but when it rains co…
Corn and beans look real good from viewing around our area. I’d encourage others not to pencil 188 bu./acre for corn as some are predicting because of lingering factors. Fields in our area have some tar spot, and hot nights are pushing it. Farmers might not get heavy test weights, but it wil…
I sprayed fungicide last week on corn. The weather has been good, and corn looks really good. I’d suggest area farmers walk their fields and pull corn ears to check for pollination issues. We’ll visit the state fair next week. We’re doing some late summer cleaning and organizing throughout t…
It’s been warm, and we keep getting showers and humidity. Diseases are becoming more noticeable. Plan fungicide spraying for today or tomorrow. Beans and corn look good. I’m getting started to be ready for fall as it will be a slow week around the farm. I’ll get software updated and replace …
We keep getting some nice showers. It hasn't been too hot. There's some hot weather in the forecast, but nothing too crazy for late July. Corn, we’re just kind of getting to the back end of tasseling. We'll see how this finishes out, but it's looking really good right now.
Everything is looking good around the farm. Most fields have tasseled or are beginning to tassel. We picked up about 1-2 inches of rain last week and avoided much of the damaging winds that went just to the north of us. Starting to see some disease in the corn, so we will plan fungicide appl…
We got a nice shot of rain of about 1.5 inches, with tassels starting to poke in through in a few fields. The second pass of bean spraying is finished up. Things are looking really good. Some in the area put over-the-top nitrogen on which was also good timing with the rain. It looks pretty c…
We finally got some good soaking rains throughout the area with many areas getting 4 inches or more over a few days. Most of it soaked in nicely. There are still a few beans that need post sprayed. A lot of them have canopied. The corn had been stressed from hot and dry conditions but looks …
Weather wise, it’s going pretty good. We’re catching good rains of about a half-inch every two to three days. Corn and beans look really good. My second pass of herbicide needs to be done. The first held well, but I may spike up the mix a little more. But I don’t have a jungle out there by a…
It’s going good. We caught a little over 2 inches of rain before the heat came on strong last week, which was good timing. We have had a lot of wind, too. We postponed a second pass of herbicide spraying because we need the right conditions. Beans are growing faster and filling out a bit. Ra…
We’re waiting for a good shot of rain as lately we only got a sprinkle here and there. Things look good. Corn is growing good and greening up. We’re further along than northern Iowa. I have no complaints. Corn is at least knee high. Beans are looking good. I completed half of the second pass…
It’s going pretty good, although I wish we got more rain. I applied second herbicide for weed kills, and I’ll do a second pass on beans later this week. We’re moving forward on hay cutting and baling. We only had about 0.25-0.5 of an inch last week of rain. We really need another shot of rai…
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