It does not seem like it takes long to get half way through the month of February. With all of the snow we are getting it is hard to believe that we could be planting corn in 6 weeks. A lot of farmers (including myself) are starting to get a little nervous about getting any early spring work done. Temperatures are forecast cold for the next week which means there will be very little melting take place. We have got our "plan A" in place but we are really going to make sure plans "B" & "C" are ready to go. We have pretty much given up on getting anymore chiseling done. We purchased a soil finisher to try and work over any chiseled ground and smooth out any ruts that we did not get filled in last fall. Unless we go to soybeans all of our corn ground will have to be worked.

This week we are going to attend some of John Roach's marketing meetings and round table discussions. Hopefully, there will be some positive news come from these meetings.

There has been some land sales in the area recently and there are a couple of auctions coming up in the next two weeks. If anyone is interested in any please let me know we would be more than happy to look at the farms with you and provide an estimated return.

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[JPlovesCOTTON]

Good luck with the planting weather. After the harvest we had, I would certainly say folks are due a good window for field work and planting in 2010!