Southern IL & Eastern MO Crop Update
2 days 14 hours ago
Progress is the key word to this update. Southern Illinois and Missouri have seen a lot of activity in the past week. Corn Planting, soybean planting, replanting, spraying, sidedressing nitrogen, cutting alfalfa, etc. The dry weather kept a lot of...
Side Dressing Corn
3 weeks 6 days ago
2013’s excessive spring rainfall has delayed corn planting to later than average over a good portion of the Corn Belt. Wet spring weather has other side effects that can affect corn yields besides delayed planting. Nitrogen loss due to leaching and volatilization from saturated...
SO Illinois and EA Missouri Crop Update
4 weeks 5 days ago
Corn planting has finally arrived! Warm weather and less rain has allowed many growers to return or begin field activities this past week. As of Friday morning, this region has an estimated 30-40% in the ground, which was close to zero just 4 days ago. If rains stay away over...
SO Illinois and EA Missouri Crop Update
8 weeks 3 days ago
What drought?
Sitting here and writing this article on 4/18/2013 with rain coming down for the 4th straight day and more forecasted next week, the record drought of 2012 has been somewhat forgotten. With the late winter snow and heavy rainfall, many tiles are flowing, with rivers and...
Herbicide Updates - Herbicide Carryover Potential
16 weeks 6 days ago
2012 seems to be a year that is hard to forget. Those of us in the seed industry have talked at length on how it affected our corn hybrids and soybean varieties. The heat and drought not only hurt performance of corn and soybeans, but also had major effects on herbicides that...
SO Illinois and EA Missouri Crop Update - Soybeans
29 weeks 2 days ago
The 2012 soybean crop in southern Illinois and Missouri surprised a lot of growers this fall when their combines got into the fields. After the extreme drought and heat that hit most of the Midwest this past summer, growers experienced low and disappointing corn yields. With lowered...
SO Illinois and EA Missouri Crop Update
30 weeks 2 days ago
The 2012 harvest season has finally come to an end. Most farmers in Southern IL and Missouri would tell you they are glad to close this one out. Planting season started off very well with early seeding, due to warm dry weather. The only problem was the dry weather stayed and the...
SO Illinois and EA Missouri Crop Update
39 weeks 3 days ago
Corn harvest is in full swing and even complete in much of Southern IL and Missouri. I think most knew that yields were going to be down before harvest started, but most discovered lower than expected yields once the combines hit the field. Estimating the final yield for the U.S.,...
SO Illinois and EA Missouri Crop Update
44 weeks 4 days ago
Today’s date is August 10th, and I can say harvest season has begun. With the record summer heat and lack of rainfall, early planted corn has rapidly moved through grain fill, along with a swift drydown process. Yield reports have been all over the board, with a range of 0-140...
SO Illinois and EA Missouri Crop Update - July 16, 2012
48 weeks 2 days ago
As we sit here on July 16, 2012, a lot of farmers in Southern IL and Missouri already know what their yields will be. A high percentage of farmers most likely will have an insurance claim due to the heat and drought that has killed off the corn crop prematurely. Some small areas are...
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