Summertime heat...

The summertime heat has arrived and our crops are off and running! All our crops are planted and the corn has all been post-sprayed with herbicides to keep the weeds at bay. The majority of our soybeans have also been sprayed. As you can see below, we also were able to complete the side-dressing of nitrogen and sulfur on our corn acres before it got too tall. We have been fortunate to continue to receive rains despite the hot 90 plus degree temperatures. Although last night's storms brought with them high winds that have laid the corn over in places. Most of this will return upright, but some will have snapped in two from the wind. The corn grows so rapidly during this time of year that it becomes brittle. And our annual Sangamon County Fair storms usually contain wind because of how hot and humid the weather has been. 

We are cleaning up planting equipment and mowing roadsides for the 4th of July holiday coming up. The focus will turn to spraying corn and soybeans with fungicide as well as stock piling lime for fall spreading. Stay cool!

Applying nitrogen and sulfur to our 30" corn outside Ashland. 

Apply nitrogen & sulfur to 20" corn outside Jacksonville. Thank goodness for tram lines!

Delivering nonGMO, hard endosperm corn to Beardstown from our grain bins. Here we are dumping it direct on to a barge where it will be sent to New Orleans and loaded on a Panamex vessel and later shipped to Japan for final consumption in a variety of products.