We received rainfall Aug. 16-19. Our fields received a range of 1.5 to 2.25 inches. This removed Iroquois County from the drought monitor designation of D0. This puts our fields at 4 inches behind in average rainfall year to date....

I had three pop-up showers during the week amounting to 0.75 inches of rain. I finally got the last bin emptied so the market could pop up. Some are preparing to bin soybeans that normally deliver at harvest due to...

Early morning sweatshirts are an indicator of where we are in the growing season. Afternoon 90s have given way to 70s, while 50s are greeting me in the mornings. Some of the 2.1 to 2.3 maturity beans have that dull...

Man is this summer moving fast! I have started noticing more than a few cornfields with the husks on the ears starting to dry down. Summer's list of things that need to be done seems awfully long yet for that...

We received 1.1 inches of rain last week. It came after a week of hot and dry weather. It will surely help the soybeans fill the pods and maybe prevent some flowers from aborting. The corn is starting to show...