Thanksgiving

We have again been very fortunate to get a lot of our fall fieldwork accomplished. Below are pictures of our last day of anhydrous ammonia application. We now have all our fall fertilizer applied as well as primary Nitrogen source for next year's corn crop. Last year we did not even start anhydrous applications until the day after Christmas and even then we only got 160 acres applied before it got too wet. It feels good to be caught up compared to last year. We have finalized our 2020 cropping plans unless the markets over the winter tell us they want more corn acres. We've selected the corn hybrids we will be planting next year and are still ironing out the details on what brand and variety of soybeans we will plant next year. Harvest equipment has been mostly washed and put away and we are gearing up to haul many semi loads of corn from our grain bins to the rail terminal in nearby Jacksonville during the month of December. We also plan to haul some of our nonGMO soybeans over to Archer Daniels Midland Co. in Decatur in December. As you can tell, we have many blessings this Thanksgiving to be thankful for. From all of us at Johnson Family Farms, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!

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.