The past week has been almost perfect in our area. With the exception of some of the very localized heavy rain last week we have had mid 80's and sun with about 1/2" of rain yesterday. The crops (and the weeds) are really starting to grow. We have been spraying corn as fast as we can trying to get the weeds killed before the corn shades the rows. The corn planted the second week of April closed the rows this weekend with the rest closely behind. When we have a big planting window like we did this year it can make spraying kind of hectic when the crop is growing fast. There are still some fields that are showing some problems and others that look pretty good. Our frost damaged corn looks really good compared to 3 weeks ago. It is amazing how mother nature can fix her own problems. This week we will still be spraying and getting things cleaned up around the farm. We have some other projects we are working on and I think we are going to get some tile installed in a few places while the crops are still small.
The picture below is what it looks like on our long term no-till/strip-till farms after a good rain. Notice the tracks in the soil. These are left from all of the earthworms coming to the top. This whole field looked like this. They do more tillage and good for the soil than any mechanical form of tillage.
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