Harvest is complete...!!!

Harvest began on Monday, September 16th and we wrapped it up on Tuesday, October 29th ahead of an 1.5" of rain and later 2-3" of snow. What a year 2019 has been! And we certainly know how lucky we are to have harvest complete compared to those in Northern Illinois, Dakotas and everywhere else it is super wet. Yields were surprisingly good in corn and average to good on soybeans. We did dry a lot our corn out of the field compared to past years, but that is also why we geared up and added the bigger dryer for this fall in anticipation of that. We have plenty of tillage and fertilizer applications to get wrapped up, but recent rain and snow fall has totaled up to 4" on some of our farms so it will be awhile before tillage can be completed. We are currently working on catching up on book work in the office and starting to make plans for our 2020 crop. 

We would again like to thank all of our employees for the long hours and continuous days they put in bringing in our 2019 harvest. We would also like to thank our partners in the field such as Beard Implement, Central Illinois Trucks, and Prairieland FS for such great service again this fall. 

Combining soybeans with the City of Ashland as the backdrop.

The clouds finally parted at the end of the day which made for an amazing sunset looking to our West from Ashland as we topped off a grain bin.

Harvesting corn right outside the city limits of Ashland.

Hammering out the soybeans on our farms in Greenfield.

We witnessed one of the most beautiful sunsets while harvesting corn on our Elkhart farm. The sky looked like it was on fire. 

Aerial shot of the combine and all the grain it collects before dumping in the grain cart.

Transferring corn from the grain cart to the semis.

Harvesting corn on the last field near New Berlin.