Where is the time going? With such a late spring it does not seem like it should be August already. This has been a crazy week. We have been trying to finish up with end of year seed paper work and miscellaneous office work which has not worked out too well. Maybe next week will be better. I did manage to get Drew to a cardinal game this week and I attended the field day at Precision Planting. As usual they put on a very informative meeting and I came home with somee new ideas that we might try on our own farm in the coming year. One of the most interesting facts of the day was that a corn plant can produce up to 6000 miles of roots.
This past week we also spent some time with our Heritage agronomist Rob Mohr. We scouted fields for disease and spent some time digging roots to look for insect and compaction problems from this past spring. We are still seeing some disease pressure in the corn but it has not moved close to the ear leaf yet and the roots we dug up looked pretty good. It appeared that the insecticide did a good job on the refuge corn and the VT3 corn did not show any insect damage.
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