February has been another mild month this winter in Central IL. The trucks are hauling grain to the market and the shop is busy working on equipment and preparing for the planting season!

This week has been busy with soybean harvesting as all the soybeans are now ready to be cut. Chisels and striptill bars have been doing tillage as the fields are harvested and fertilized for the 2024 crops.

This week corn and soybean harvest 2023 started at Gingerich Farms.

This past week we visited the Farm Progress Show in Decatur IL. This is always an exciting time to reconnect with companies we do business with and see the next things being introduced to progress agriculture forward. This year a lot of new technologies were being...

Rains have continued to come timely for the corn and soybeans on our farms here in central IL. Current activities include finishing fungicide applications to corn. Preparing equipment for harvest. Scouting crops, and installing tile. This past week the old corn drier...

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...