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...

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...

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...

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...

This week we have been able to start planting soybeans here at Gingerich Farms. We did plant enough corn to make sure the planters are ready, but cold weather forecast for next week has kept us from planting much corn. Soybeans are not as yield sensitive to the...