We are waking up to another thunderstorm this morning. The corn is growing at a rapid pace in our area, and we should have some tassels out this week. With more 90 degree temps predicted for this week it will once again feel like we are living in a greenhouse. After last weeks rains a lot of our ponds and low areas are still full of water which will cause some nitrogen loss and possibly stand reduction in those areas. With that said we are still looking pretty good. Last week I went about 40 miles west of here and there crops look a lot worse. A lot of yellow stunted corn and a lot of those farmers are still trying to get their soybeans planted.
This week we are going to be finishing up with spring paper work, and getting ready for the upcoming fall. With the wet fall we had we switched a lot of our soil testing to the spring. We will be evaluating those tests and preparing the rates for this fall. This fall we will be doing variable rate spreading of a lot of our dry fertilizer. This means that we will be putting fertilizer on areas of the field that need it and not spreading any where the levels are adequate. The recommendations will be made based on the soil tests from this spring.
The boys also got a little fishing time in last week.
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