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Soybean planting is now underway

Soybean planting is now underway in our area. Mother Nature has given us another good window of opportunity to get some fieldwork completed. So far all of our corn is emerged and looks great. There has been very little insect pressure and the populations look good with even emergence. With the recent rains we do have some subsoil moisture and most of the field tiles are running again. With a few more days of good weather it looks like we will be able to wrap up with the 2012 planting season.

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Another rain event today in

Another rain event today in out area. Fortunately we have not had a lot of rain but we have had another 1/4 -1/2 inch. Although we would like to get back in the field to finish planting this rain is doing a lot of good to the corn that is planted and emerging. Hopefully next week we can get back to do some field work.

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Once again we have been

Once again we have been blessed with a very timely rain. Most of the farms
over the last five days have had between 1.5”-2.3” that soaked in very
nicely. We are pretty much done with corn planting. We have one field left
that they finished some tile work on last week and needed a rain before we could
plant it. We should be able to do that as soon as it dries up. The focus
will then turn to soybeans which we should be able to complete in 3-4 days of
fieldwork. So far the weed control looks good and the threat of cutworms
has been minimal. The frosted corn has recovered pretty good and it is
hard to tell the frosted plants from the others now. This week we are catching
up on some odd jobs and we are also starting to haul lime for the upcoming
fall. The kids are ready for school to wind down. We have been
having basketball and baseball practice twice a week each and are trying to get
ready for the upcoming summer. It looks pretty busy from here until the
end of July.

This week should bring an

This week should bring an end to our corn planting if all goes well. We still have one farm that we are installing some tile on but that should be done this week if we do not get a lot of rain. Temperatures are still pretty cool and we have had light frost 2 of the last three nights but I think the damage will be minimal if any to the corn that is emerged. This has been one of the nicest springs I have ever experienced from mother nature. It is nice being able to plant on our schedule instead of hers. Maybe she is giving us a break from the past couple of years.

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Well we are back at

Well we are back at it again this week. After a beautiful 1.5" rain last weekend corn planting has resumed. There is another chance for some rain tomorrow but next week looks pretty good which should allow us to put the final touches on the 2012 corn planting. The picture is some of our corn that had some frost damage. It is starting to grow back and will hopefully grow through or break off the dead tissue created by the freeeze.

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We are still going strong,

We are still going strong, but we are about to quit for the rest of the week or until it rains. We are about 80% completed with corn planting which is a record for this early in the year. We had a freeze warning last night and tonight but we do not have corn big enough yet to worry about....I hope. The rest of our ground needs a rain before we can plant it. Some of it was spring applied NH3 on March 10 and has not had any rain since then.

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A pretty picture this morning

A pretty picture this morning on our farm as our first field of corn emerges with the sunrise!

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Bulk seed handling is probably

Bulk seed handling is probably one of the best inventions for spring planting. Not only does it save a lot of wear and tear on my back it saves about an hour each time we fill up. We can load 50 bags of corn in less than 10 minutes.

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View from the cab. Sent

View from the cab.

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