Thursday, August 7, 2025

With the consistently rainy summer we are experiencing, it requires frequent mowing of the yard.  Seems like every 4 days, I’m out there cutting grass (crabgrass and clover, really).  Typically, in August the yard is dry and crunchy, and you can go 20 days without mowing… but not this year.

I try to maintain the stripes as I mow the yard

The last of the wheat has not quite been cleaned out of the storage bins…there is one bin left to sweep.  But as soon as the weather cools back down a bit, that will happen.

We went to a ‘seed meeting’ today, and they served steaks and superb desserts.  It was a helpful meeting as we learned about Dynagro wheat and DeKalb corn and Asgrow soybeans for 2026.  One of the things they stressed was the pre-harvest desiccation of soybeans; the goal with that is to make the ripening of the beans more uniform, and harvest sooner.   They spoke about increases in yield.  We may test that methodology on couple small fields this fall.   We are skeptical, but we ought to give it a try.  The plans for next year’s crops have started to be rolled around in our minds and will get closer and closer as the weeks pass.  By the time we are halfway through the fall harvest, we will know more about 2026 costs and will be firming up the #cropplan26.

The Gator has returned from the shop at Sloan’s.  I’ll probably have it out this afternoon to spray along a couple soybean fields.

Happy Thursday.