Brittany Bartak, CCA

Two hour combine ride this morning w/grower who only had 30-ish lbs of commercial Nitrogen on this field(as starter) w/molasses & milk replacer via fertigation thru the season. 3 years corn on corn 105 day hybrid Rough math using combine grain tank & row length things should be super close to 200 bushel/acre yield. Brings his PROFIT per acre up to around $140. He’s tickled pink. With education, management & more education this way of growing a monoculture crop is ABSOLUTELY possible. We brainstormed what next year’s starter is going to be…& it won’t be a commercial fert. 😏

The fun time of the scouting season.

First round of irrigation pipe went out yesterday morning, done an hour before another random .30 of rain. It’s been a heck of a year already and we barely have head high corn and shin high beans. 😅 Hopefully tonight’s weather doesn’t wipe crops out.

We gave this field a year’s “rest”; no herbicides applied and very little commercial fertilizer(I think 30-40-ish lbs of N went thru the pivot for the milo). ‘22 & ‘23 corn crops were basically failures. Grower turned it into hunting for ‘24. It’ll go corn this year. As soon as I arrived yesterday to see how the winter has treated it, I was greeted by tons of birds chirping & singing. Once the ground thaws & warms up I’m going to pull some soil health samples to see where we’re sitting.

A family of Trumpeter swans have been hanging out around our place for about a week. They were finally close enough to the road to snap some pics. 🤩

Any bets on if this actually gets to us and amounts to anything? Not many have any faith in rain storms around here anymore.

Edible bean gurus—what is going on with these beans? Top half of the plant. Irrigated. Variable soils(loam, sand, gravel) Random plants, no pattern or rhyme in where it shows up. Past lab tests/results have been inconclusive. Any insight is appreciated! TIA!

This afternoon’s project; gut the laundry room. Closing day is tomorrow! Finally! Living the American dream of home reno and ownership of a 100 year old house.

Roughly estimating 30-40% of this particular field is under water and not much sign of it going down anytime soon. Across the farm(2000-ish total row crop), guess-timating that we'll lose 400ish acres to water. All fields had some level of hail as well.

We have 'shrooms!! Our first J-S has 'gone fungal', for a few weeks now! We're pretty excited. 😊

@ChannelSeed 211-11 VT2Pro is loving life behind soybeans fb rye, no-till, even with all the wind the last 7 days.