Friday, June 12, 2026

It is a pleasant morning today, after we received .4″ (10mm) of rain early this morning.  That matched the same amount we received in the wee hours of Thursday morning.   That rainfall is certainly welcome.  I checked on the replanted soybeans at Grubb this morning and saw that many of them are popping through the soil.  That makes me hopeful that no further replanting will be needed… at least as far as we know now… White River has come back up a bit but is not out in the fields…yet.

Soybeans replanted on June 5 are beginning to emerge. It’s always a relief to see those little cotyledons come out to the sunshine.

White River is rising, but should not be a threat to the replanted soybeans

The guys are hooking up the grain cart to the JD 9520R tractor… one of the last steps before wheat harvest.  They did some repair to the horizontal auger a few weeks ago, and now it is fully prepared for operation once again.

Servicing the grain cart driveshafts and tracks today in preparation of wheat harvest next week. Demco 1322

The temperature is more comfortable this morning at 72ºF (22C), with a high predicted this afternoon of 85F (29C).   Even cooler highs are predicted for next week, with some days in the 70s!   The heat and humidity of this week have felt like wheat harvesting weather, but the wheat is not quite ready.  We expect to begin on Monday.

More comfortable this morning… 72 degrees and .42″ of rain earlier today

We will see what the days bring.  We are eager to get going on this summer’s harvest.  We are hopeful for decent yields for the wheat.

Corn is growing rapidly, like it always does in June.

I think we have surpassed the “knee high by the 4th of July” old saying…

Have a lovely weekend.