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…
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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,…
We’re back with another episode of the podcast with the Corn Whisperer, also known as Rodney Weinzierl of the Illinois Corn Growers Association. This week, we discussed the ins and…
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…
Remember that post I wrote a few weeks ago about why we were planting pink soybean seeds? Here’s some of the “blue” corn we planted. The blue color simply comes…
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…
If you live in the Midwest, you may have noticed that it’s been raining an awful lot this summer. Typically, we hear more complaints from farmers about not enough rain…
You may have heard that the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) finally passed in Congress this week and is now awaiting the signature of President Obama. And now you’re probably…
Last night, I was beginning to wonder what I was going to blog about next as I try to get over my writer’s block this week, and I happened to catch…