Friday, May 3, 2024

As the week closes out, we received another .22″ (6mm) of rain before daybreak today.  Although that doesn’t sound like a lot of rain, it came on top of already too-wet fields… so there is no field activity today.  The good news is that the crops in the earliest-planted fields are now emerging.  They are looking healthy and have a deep green color.  It is always a relief to see those seedlings come up out of the soil!

You can see the corn plants ‘down the row’ now on this first-planted field.

…and the soybean cotyledons are popping through… not perfectly uniform, but pretty evenly for drilled soybeans.

As we move into the month of May, it gets more urgent to get the planting accomplished.  However, we can only do what the field conditions allow.  The fields that remain are still much too soggy for us to run the planters, or even too soft to run the sprayer.  So, we wait as patiently as possible, and we must admit some days that is easier said than done.  But we move ahead in faith.   We have learned over the decades that there will be an opportunity to do our work.   We just have to be ready when that opportunity arrives.  We believe we are ready.

It helps to remember that we have made good progress so far for #plant24.  We are 2/3 or more through the planting process.  Count your blessings.

Have a good weekend.