Here are my final thoughts from this year’s tour. It was copied from the blog so no new insights since 7-3. 1. Indiana has little chance to be average. Warren and Benton Counties are typically two of the best counties in the State. We traveled both and found, replanted fields, low plant stands (in fields[…] Read More
Follow along as we tour Western Indiana, Illinois, Southern Minnesota and Iowa to assess the potential of this year’s crops (1650 plus miles in 3 days). This will be our 4th tour. We went the first time in 2011, then again in 2012, took 2013, 2014 and 2015 off, they resumed in 2016 and now[…] Read More
2016 was certainly an interesting crop harvest season. In central Illinois, we had a very warm somewhat wet season. We expected to harvest our largest crop ever and we feel just short of that expectation. When the final bins are emptied and all of the sheets tallied it appears that we will harvest the second[…] Read More
Harvest if off and running here around Central Illinois. I traveled last week in Iowa and found that they virtually had not started anything but Seed Corn harvest. I would expect that we will get a good week in here. Some of the early yield reports are all over the board. I am hearing[…] Read More
Feel free to browse and send me back your comments. I will use this section to update everyone on important issues in respect to crops, farm ownership, farm investment and anything else that I think would be of interest. This is an opportunity for you the client, the reader to interact as well. I am[…] Read More