From the Fields: Really good sign

This week has been all over the board. I’ve kept busy signing fields, scouting crops, kicking off seed meetings and mowing roadsides. I started the week with our area sales rep from LG Seeds. We put up field signs and looked at some corn and soybean acres. We went to a grower in Johnson County to scout for disease pressure across his corn and soybeans acres. We ended up in Shelby County scouting some silage and some commercial corn. The crops looked really good in both locations and both growers seemed to be pleased with the performance up to this point. We like to put field signs up to advertise our dealership and bring brand awareness to neighboring farms who might not be familiar with our products.

We had a two-day virtual kick off with Merschman Seeds for the dealer kickoff for the 2022 sales season. We had Damian Mason as a guest speaker and he covered some very interesting subjects. He’s had a lot of experience in the ag industry and shared some shocking stats. He sent us a copy of his book titled “Food Fear: How Fear is Ruining Your Dinner and Why You Should Celebrate Eating” and I’m anxious to dive into it. The kickoff focused on programs and pricing, as well as introducing new products that are coming into our lineup this spring. We are excited about the soybean plot at our farm and can’t wait to show it off to our customers and anyone in our area interested in seeing what Merschman Seeds has to offer for E3 soybeans. We will also have our LG Seeds corn plot available for anyone interested in seeing our lineup. We plan to have a field day the end of August and anyone is welcome to come.

We also spent some time mowing roadsides, waterways and Conservation Reserve Program ground this past week. We always try and keep everything mowed and looking nice around our fields. It’s a big task and takes a ton of time, but we always feel good when it’s mowed and looks nice as you drive by a field. We think it really helps with keeping some weed pressure down around outside edges of fields and waterways because we don’t let them go to seed and spread out into the crop ground. We have several more days to get it all covered again, but with rain in the forecast for next week we might be out a day or two. We need a good rain or two in August to make our crop finish, so it’s a critical time right now for us to receive some good rains.

I hope everyone has a great week and stays cool as temps creep back up in the 90s for us next week.