4th of July...

Time sure does fly by as I realized it had been awhile since I last posted any activity. I can assure you that things have been busy here at Johnson Family Farms since we wrapped up our planting and replanting activities. We have all the herbicide sprayings completed on the crops, but are starting to turn our focus towards applying fungicides on our soybeans & corn. We received anywhere from 6-10" of rainfall across our farms in the last couple weeks - most of which was needed. We were lucky to have all our roadsides mowed up and looking good prior to all that rain. While waiting for things to dry up we have been busy on shop projects with semis and trailers. Our latest project was converting our 1969 tanker trailer over from Dayton rims to hub and pilot. The Dayton rims had the wedge kit to keep the rim/wheel in place and were extremely difficult to reposition correctly. Most tire repair places will not work on them anymore. This project involved removing the old wheel hubs and replacing with matching hubs. That was a challenge matching 2021 hubs with a 1969 manufactured trailer. But after a couple different trips for parts, the guys got everything converted over and we now sport shiny new aluminum rims on an older stainless steel tanker. The crops are progressing quite well and we should begin fungicide applications on corn with the airplane this week. Soon the first planted sweetcorn will be ready as well. We hope everyone had a good 4th of July holiday!Brent

Loading soybeans headed to the Illinois River to be exported.

Our 4th of July display.

Our corn planted April 7th is now fully tasseled.