Corn College

The Corn College met this week in Bloomington, Illinois.
For the whole scoop:
http://www.agweb.com/Get_Article.aspx?src=farmjournal&sigcat=farmjournal&pageid=144008

Purdue Top Farmer Crop Workshop

I came across this Indiana conference that begins July 20th….it struck me because I believe ‘Top Farmer” is a known term in agriculture…also “Top Producer” as in Top Producer Magazine. Not to be naive, but does it make ANY sense to segregate agriculture in this way? What about the ‘Not So Top” Farmers?
The Conference agenda [...]

Update from John Phipps on corn and beans

Notes from John Phipps’ Blog on his observations on corn and bean crops:

We finished (or at least stopped) Friday night. I decided against spotting in corn wetholes – too much damage, too little gain.
We replanted about 130 acres of 800 of soybeans. Around here, no-till for beans was a difficult mission this year. The replanting [...]