Rider Jackson farms with his dad, Fred, in Buchanan County. He grows primarily corn and soybeans, as well as some wheat and putting up hay. He studied agriculture at Northwest Missouri State University. Jackson participated in the Missouri Corn Growers Association’s CornRoots program, which is a leadership academy for young farmers.

Over the past two weeks, planting progress has been slowed by frequent rainfall, with systems moving through every three to four days. Last Friday, our area was under a tornado warning, bringing marble-sized hail along with nearly an inch of rain. Conditions have finally allowed us to return to the field, and we are now back to planting corn, pushing to make as much progress as possible ahead of the next rain event expected in about five days.

We were able to finish planting both corn and soybeans this week just ahead of another round of rain that brought about 0.5 inches. Field conditions have continued to be challenging for farmers in the area with frequent rains slowing progress, but we were thankful to get everything wrapped up before this latest system moved through. We have some fields of corn and soybeans out of the ground and looking like they are off to a great start!

Weather challenges returned this last week. A hard, fast-moving storm Sunday brought around 2-3 inches of rain in a short period, leading to some big washouts and saturated soils. In addition, a frost on Thursday caused damaged in some soybean fields, with certain areas needing to be evaluated for replant. Despite the setbacks, corn stands are generally looking good, and we’ll continue assessing soybean conditions as the crop progresses.

We received another round of light rain this week. The corn pretty much all emerged and is looking healthy overall and progressing well with the warmer temperatures. The later-planted soybeans are starting to come up, and some earlier-planted beans that took a hit from last week’s frost and heavy rain events are starting to come back. Overall, the crops are off to a decent start despite our difficult planting season.

Most of the corn is now in the V4-V5 growth stage and is looking healthy overall, with the recent warm temperatures really helping crop progress. The early-planted soybeans look great. We had a few areas that had to be replanted due to frost or water damage, but everything is in the ground and the fieldwork is completed!

Both the corn and soybeans have emerged and are off to a pretty good start so far. We received over 3 inches of rain this week, which has kept things wet across the area. The crop could definitely use some warmer temperatures and sunshine this coming week to help spur growth and let fields dry out a bit. Overall, we’re thankful to have everything up and growing.

We’ve received another 2 inches of rain this week, followed by some sunshine and heat. This was a really great growing week in northwest Missouri. Our corn is mostly around the V6 growth stage. Soybeans are starting to grow outwards more and bush out. Everything is looking better.

The last week we have received anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of rain. There has been some flooding in the bottom ground, and the hill ground has its wet spots with water standing as well. Our corn ground is super clean, and it’s canopied. The soybeans have quite a bit of weed pressure coming in. We’ve been spraying in the small windows we get a chance to.

We got another 2 inches this last week. The corn is looking great, and the soybeans have been looking better and better with this heat we’ve had this last week!

It has been rainy and overcast most of the last week. Some of the early-planted corn is starting to tassel as well as the early-planted beans are flowering!

It’s been overcast all week and showers every couple days. We’re trying to get our wheat harvested. The crop conditions haven’t been suitable yet, but the next week’s forecast brings hope!

We got another 1.5 inches of rain. The corn is fully tasseled, and fungicide is starting to go on. The soybeans are fully canopied and really starting to fill out!

Everything is looking great! We got 2 inches of rain last week. Our corn fungicide is complete. The early soybeans are getting fungicide sprayed on this week.

It’s been a hot and dry week. The corn and beans are both looking really good! We haven’t gotten any rain in 10 days now. The corn is showing a little stress just in the areas where the roots struggled during the growing season, but the majority of fields look great! The soybeans are filling pods like crazy. They could use another rain here soon.

We got a quarter inch of rain this last week. The crops are still looking good, but they could sure use a couple inches of rain with this upcoming forecast looking warm! The double-crop beans are also off to a good start and could use the rain as well.

We got an inch of rain this last week. The corn is definitely finished out and is good on rain. The soybeans are filling pods like crazy right now! We are forecasted to get another rain this coming week, which will really help. It’s been a great growing season in northwest Missouri!

This last week we’ve had a couple small showers come through. Both the corn and beans look really good this year. It’s been a fairly cool last couple weeks, and the crops have had minimal stress.

We haven’t really seen any disease pressure. We got 1.5 inches of rain this last week. We are on track to have a phenomenal corn and soybean crop! Some of the March-planted corn is starting to dry down. Combines will be firing up in this area within the next few weeks.

Our corn is around 28-30% moisture. Some of the local farmers that are drying their corn down are just starting to fire up and get into the fields. The soybeans are still filling pods. They are looking really good!

We are firing up tomorrow (Monday, Aug. 31)! The hot weather that’s blowing in this week will have a lot of the corn dried down enough for the farmers in the area to start running.

The corn is running anywhere from 19-25% moisture. So far, the yields have been very impressive in the corn, and the markets are exciting as well! The early-planted soybeans are starting to dry down, I’m guessing we will have some ready to harvest within three weeks.

We have been picking corn like crazy this past week. We are switching over to cut some early maturity soybeans midweek. Yields are looking great so far, and we have small chances of rain every day this coming week.

The corn and soybean yields have been very good this season. Comparable to last year, the crops are coming out nicely. The field conditions are starting to get a little sticky as we are catching some more rain. We got 2.5 inches this last week. Looking forward to seeing how the rest of the crops harvest!

Very little harvest progress this last week and running behind last year quite a bit. We got 3.5 inches of rain this last week, with misty, wet weather every day! The seven-day forecast isn’t looking much better. We have been shut down most of the week.

We had another really wet week. We got close to 4 inches of rain between Tuesday to Thursday. We just fired back up Sunday evening cutting soybeans. Field conditions are still on the wet side, but the beans are dry and yielding good so far!

This last week we ran hard! Got the majority of our soybeans harvested and just switched back over to corn. Field conditions were pretty soft the first half of the week and now they are about perfect! We are very happy with the yields we are seeing.