Where is winter?

As we welcome in the new year we are still waiting for winter to arrive. We would sure like to see some more moisture in the ground and some colder temperatures to help kill some of the bugs and mello out the soil. Any moisture we have gotten soaks in pretty quickly and the ground is still dry enough that fall fieldwork could be done if it had to be. This past week we started hauling corn from our bins into ADM inDecatur. The lines were pretty good this week considering it was early January. The market rally the last month has allowed us to price some of our old crop corn and a few bushels for the 2012 crop. This week we will continue to empty some bins and get the new years paper work underway. We will also be finalizing seed orders and making sure everything is in place for the upcoming planting season. Later in the week dad and I will also be speaking at the National No-till conference in St. Louis. If anyone is going or in the area come by and say hello.