Here we go!

Corn is 'rolling' out of the fields in Franklin County. Though a lot of corn is still standing we are starting to take high moisture off and it looks like quite the crop so far. Today I was in a field that was running about 24% and with a corrected yield of 230 bu. It looks like most of this years corn will be a great crop. This field was an early planted field with 114 day corn. Overall I believe we will see high yields across the county. Most silage has been running around 25 tons on the better soils with highs in the 30's. Some of the less productive ground has been running around 15-18 tons which isn't bad at all! Tomorrow I'm going out to harvest the Franklin Co. bean plots so hopefully I have some information on what the bean crop looks like as well.

Corn Silage Harvest Drawing Near

Corn Silage harvest is just around the corner and I've started taking moistures on the PDMP test plot we have here in the county. On Monday the plots were at 27% D.M. so a little ways to go until we reach 40. We certainly have varied planting dates and stages of maturity around the county, however I do believe we start to see our earliest plantings getting close in the next week or so. The plot I'm sampling was planted on the 29th of April. I'll take another sample tomorrow and post the details.