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Recent Rains Bring Growth

The recent rains have been a great blessing in central IL! The crops have responded by growing taller this last week. Corn pollination has started this past week.

Central IL is still dry but the cooler temperatures this week helped bring relief to the crops. Corn and soybeans continue to grow well. This week we have finished our sidedress nitrogen applications to the corn and are nearly completed with the post emergence...

Corn Planting Completed

This week we completed planting the 2023 corn crop. We did have to replant in a few soybeans in Champaign and Douglas counties that drowned out from too much water. Overall the crop is off to a great start. The side-dress bars started applying the next phase of...

Planting Corn

This past week the soil temperatures got above a minimum of 50 degrees. This allowed us to start planting corn again. This weekend a series of thunderstorms came through and we received 1 to 4 plus inches of rain on our fields. This was a welcomed rain as this spring...

Spring Prep thru Bean Planting

Corn and Soybean Starting to Emerge

Some of the very first planted corn and soybeans have started to emerge early this week. Monday morning we had a temperature of 28 degrees and a few hours of frost. We are monitoring the emerged crop to see how much damage was done. We have been continuing to plant...