What a difference a year makes! Last year we battled mud and cold temperatures most all of harvest. This year it is dry and warm. We are actually very dry. So dry that most all of us will need subsequent rains before we begin anhydrous ammonia applications. Harvest is moving along nicely. We have 200 acres of corn to harvest around Pleasant Plains and then we will move to our Greenfield farm. We have one last field of soybeans to harvest, but believe it or not they aren't quite ready yet due to them being a 4.2 maturity and planted on June 10th. Corn yields have stayed towards the higher end of the "good" category; despite only being 13-15% moisture coming right out of the field. In fact, we only ran our corn dryer for two weeks of our entire harvest. That is very rare. Soybean yields have been nothing short of exciting with only a few fields disappointing; but only by this year's standards. Bean yields across Central Illinois seem to be exceptional everywhere. We are caught up on our tillage operations. The weather this fall has allowed for good tillage conditions and also plenty of time to get fields limed to get the pH's corrected. We are working on plans to plant some rye cover crop ahead of corn on a few fields and hopefully next time I update the blog I'll have pictures of us seeding that. With any luck we will be done with harvest within the next 10 days.
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| Another semi load of corn getting ready to leave the Elkhart farm at dusk. |
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| Ronnie Brown running the chisel plow. |
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| Two 40' draper heads can cover a lot of soybean acres in a hurry... |
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| Harvesting soybeans on the Quad J field South of Prentice along Rt. 123. |
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| Ron getting all the waterways and creek banks looking good on the Williamsville farm. |
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| Keeping the trucks moving. |
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| Harvesting corn on the Grand Prairie Farm. |
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| Aerial shot with the drone of the chisel plow working at Elkhart. He is literally pulling in the field the same day the combine finishes. |
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