Happy Friday! Time for my weekly Follow the Field update. It’s hot here in Central Illinois – hope everyone has cool plans for the weekend! It’s Stanford Good Old Days in my…
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It’s Follow the Field Friday! Not much to update other than the hot weather has been great for the crops – they need as much sunshine as they can get…
Not much to report this week other than the corn has been growing like a weed! (Which is a good thing right now. 😉 ) We’re pretty much at the…
No doubt about it, it’s been a challenging spring for farmers across the Midwest. Soggy field conditions kept us from planting for week after week after week throughout April, May,…
It’s now been about six weeks since the corn was planted. Last weekend (May 21 and 22), the farmers side-dressed most of the corn on the farm (I say most…
Planting is one of the busiest and most important times of the year for a farmer. It’s the start to a new growing season and holds promise for a good…
Planting: sowing the seeds for this year’s crop. It seems like the growing season is just beginning, but planning started even before last year’s harvest began. I’d like to introduce you…