June 7th...

It has been a wild ride since my initial planting post. While we started planting on April 2nd, we did not end planting until May 26th. Two days later on May 28th we began replanting in earnest. Two of our three planting windows this spring were followed by 3-5 and sometimes 7" rainfalls. These created many areas that had standing water and thus drowned out the seedlings creating a need for us to replant the now barren holes within the field. David spent four days across four counties with the 4 row planter spotting in. We even replanted one entire corn field and one entire soybean field. The corn field had a majority of drowned out areas and the soybean field was crusted over after planting causing about a third of a stand of soybeans. So we went back in with another 80,000 seeds per acre to thicken up the stand. Once we finished planting the spraying operations took priority and Tom has most all the corn sprayed as well as all the early planted soybeans. We've also been hauling corn from our grain bins as well as starting to mow roadsides. The weather has turned from what was one of the coldest springs to now just plain hot with temperatures in the 90's. The hot temperatures along with the abundant sunshine and good soil moisture is really bringing along the crops quickly. 

Replanting drowned out spots on our Williamsville corn.

Blending up a starter fertilizer mixture our Peer Group is joint testing for corn. 

Installing the "new to us" generator at the dryer site. We had reached our power limits with the former generator so we replaced our 200KW unit with a 350KW model. This is the crane putting the new unit in place.