Finished up with corn harvest last week. It was a bit of a limp to the finish as the shaker frame in our combine broke at the side rail. So, that will be a major repair this offseason. Overall corn ended up 5-10% over average for us, which we were happy with. It seems like every year over th…
Andy Edson is the sixth generation to live and farms east of Nashua in southern Chickasaw County near its border with Bremer County. Edson lives with his wife, Amber, and daughters, Adie and Audrey, on the farm. He focuses on growing corn and soybeans over about 2,000 acres. This year will f…
Corn harvest is finishing up in the area. I’ll hopefully be done by the end of the week. Lots of tillage and baling being done. I saw some really good yields out of the late-maturity corn hybrids this year, probably 10-15% above average. Moisture stayed in the 18-20% range. Looking forward t…
We had another good week of progress. I’m just starting to see some guys get finished up in the area, though there’s still plenty of corn to be picked. I’ve probably got a week to week and a half left depending on the rain. Mid- and late-maturities are still testing 17-19%. Yields are variab…
We had 1.3 inches of rain this week with some reports in the area of 2-plus inches. It was great to get a little time with family while we waited to dry out. I’m about a third done on corn, still finding some dry enough to go straight into the bin. In the later maturities, moisture bumps up …
If you look hard enough you can still find a few bean fields that need to be taken out, but most finished up this past week. We’re 25% finished with corn. Yields have been variable, but there’s a lot of field averages 15-20 bushels above average (with one-pass fungicide). I’ve heard reports …
We got 0.7 of an inch of rain overnight, bringing a welcome break after a good run on beans. We've got a day or two left to get finished up. This area is probably 80-90% done on beans. Yields were average this year. Moistures have been around 11-12% in the mornings, 8-9% by the end of the da…
I have made good progress on getting ready for harvest this week. We got through most of the equipment without major issues. I hand checked an early-planted field this morning and it tested 20%, so I imagine we’ll try to go out soon, weather permitting. Not many combines going in the neighbo…
I have made good progress on getting ready for harvest this week. We got through most of the equipment without major issues. I still need to get through the bin site but hand checked an early-planted field this morning and it tested 20%, so I imagine we’ll try to go out soon, weather permitt…
As the last of the old crop got hauled in we switched our focus to maintenance on harvest equipment. Thankfully the biggest surprise so far has been a mouse getting hungry on a combine fuel gauge wire. If only all fixes were that easy. Heard of multiple people getting ready to chop silage la…
We had 0.2 of an inch of rain this week. It’s been probably our best weather week of the summer — perfect for cleaning out bins and working outside. I’m getting down to the last of old-crop corn. I’ve got one field showing the effects of rust. Most of that will be our first field to harvest.…
The biggest thing to happen, we had a big rain Monday last week (Aug. 18) — 3 inches here at home and 20 miles north of us probably had about 6-8 inches which caused major local highways to shut down for about a half day. I’m keeping up with mowing. I notice southern rust showing up on the o…
Waking up to a flash flood warning this morning. Our area had 2-4 inches of rain overnight with more on the way this morning. Southern rust has pushed its way into the area but is mostly showing on the lower half of the plant. I heard of some neighbors putting in drone orders to address it o…
Another inch of rain measured in the gauge over the weekend. Some parts of northeast Iowa got multiple inches. Fungicide applications got buttoned up last week for us. The window of blissful ignorance is ending on soybean weed control this season. You can find some broadleaves starting to po…
We got another 4 inches of rain last week. The ground is finally starting to dry out in the area again. I’m thankful that there isn’t more flat corn after the winds that came with the rain. Plenty of trees and limbs came down in the area. Bremer County Fair was dealing with it all last week …
We got 4 inches of rain last week plus another 1.2 inches last night with some wind that tangled the bean canopy. Still no hail, thankfully. It was just getting dry enough for the ground rigs to get back in, so I'm betting a lot of the fungicide left to do will have to be applied aerially. I…
We got 1.7 inches of rain here last Friday night. Thankfully I had about two-thirds of my bean acres sprayed for fungicide. The rest might have to go on aerially with the forecast this week. Looks like guys who are trying to get back out may be able to do that today or tomorrow on their sand…
We got another 2 inches of rain July 10. Y-dropping is mostly finishing up in the area and will switch to fungicide application this week. Corn planted mid-April has a mostly extended tassel on it. Worked some on bin cleanouts this week and hauled grain. Keeping lawns mowed has been a hard e…
I had a busy week — finished up Y-dropping and soybean spraying, though sure there will be touch-ups as weeds are growing fast and the edges probably won’t hold. Everything looks pretty good otherwise. Corn is growing some, and we definitely received plenty of moisture with 1.3 inches of it …
We were able to get into the field for some more spraying and side-dressing for about a day this week but otherwise got a few more inches of rain. The last 20% of my side-dressing I’ll have to switch to Y-drops. Weeds are definitely starting to grow in the bean fields. Fields are still showi…
Another inch of rain here in the past week which brings us to a total of 7 inches for the month of June. Another week of almost no fieldwork able to be done in the area. But the hot and windy weekend made for a window today for some spraying and possibly some side-dressing before another rou…
It’s wet out there. We caught a 3-inch rain last week, so field work has been pretty minimal since. We still have a couple days of side-dressing left to get done as well for spraying, too. The corn has really started to take off since the rains. Early-planted corn in the area is close to thi…
It’s going pretty decent. I hauled some grain last week. I’m plugging away on side-dressing, but I have a ways to go yet. Crops look decent. Corn spraying is done and I’ve moved on to spraying beans. Hay is down. I’m waiting for the wind to calm down for spraying. Pretty much everything emer…
Much of the work recently included a lot of side-dressing and sprayers and hay cutting. I tend to wait a little bit on side dressing as I just started yesterday. We made good progress on corn spraying and we’re about to start on beans. I see some weed pressure in outside of edges of fields. …
We got 2.4 inches of rain this week so there probably won’t be much activity until after the holiday, but it sounds like next week things should pick up between post-spraying and side-dressing. Not everything we’ve planted is quite out of the ground yet, but you can see a lot of it (corn and…
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