Our Farm News

Planting Corn

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...

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Corn and Soybean Starting to Emerge

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...

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Planting Begins

Planting Begins

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...

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