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Here is our 2018 Harvest

Here is our 2018 Harvest Video

 

With Biology We Do Not Need Soybean Treatment

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Soil Health & Microbes

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Harvest is coming!! With all

Harvest is coming!!

 

With all of the good weather we have had the crop is maturing fast! 
It is looking like we will be in the field within the next week so stay tuned
for updates from the field!

July Update Things are looking

July Update

 

Things are looking really good here in Central IL. We have a had a
enough rain to get thru the pollination part of the summer. Actually, we have
had too much rain in some places and have lost crops in some of our low lying
areas of fields, but it looks minimal compared to past years. We have not done
any yield checks yet, but the potential kernels on the corn plants looks
good. The plants look healthy and some of the trials we have done with our
microbial systems approach are looking really good, and will make for an
exciting harvest. Now for the bad news, we need to get the prices back
up! The fundamentals of the markets were looking favorable for stable
prices into fall and then the tariff issue hit the news. A sharp decline in the
market has everyone on edge after the previous years of negative income has
everyone on edge, especially with an early harvest approaching. Prices
have returned to below break even levels, and a large crop will be needed to
make up some of the difference in the loss of price.

2018 Soybeans

This year we are planting our soybeans without and insecticide or fungicide. We treated them Bio Launch a biological treatment from Agribio Systems. Bio Launch contains 76 beneficial microbe species. We also put a dry powder innoculant called Mycoplex on seed when filling planter. It is also from Agribio Systems and it basically is mychorrzal fungi. With these 2 products on the beans, they will get a jump start out of the ground and the soil around the seed will be healthier and fight off all disease pressure it may encounter. Once the root develops the mychorrzal fungi will become extensions of the roots to allow for more efficient water and nutrient uptake.

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Here is a good interview

Here is a good interview on farm profitability for 2018

 

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Milk Line and Black Layer

As we are nearing harvest, we are getting machinery ready, scouting fields and making a plan for harvest. When scouting fields, we look at ears of corn for the yield and where the milk line is on the kernels.
After the kernels on the ear are at full dent, a distinctive line forms adjacent to the dent end of the kernal. This is the milk line. The milk line separates the solid starch from the milky starch in the kernel itself. Over a three week period, the line moves toward the cob as the kernels fill to their final grain weight. Once the milk line reaches the cob, a black abscission layer forms at the kernel tip. At this moment, the starch movement into the grain ceases. The black layer signals physiological maturity and the final grain weight has been achieved. Plant stress or defoliation after the black layer has no effect on yield. Corn moisture at the black layer is typically around 30%. From that point, kernel drying is entirely due to evaporative moisture loss and the moisture can drop from a half a point to a point a day.
Currently the milk line is about three fourths of the way towards the cob, which means harvest is still few weeks away.

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Harvest is getting closer!

Some cool air blowing in and the equipment getting ready means harvest is getting closer!

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