Tuesday, January 24, 2012

WH12

I think WH12 will have stiff resistance in the $6.45-6.50 area with the downtrend line and 100 day MA in the same area.


Friday, January 13, 2012

Couple Pics of my new office

Finally getting close to settling in. Maybe this will help me stay more organized.

Side note: the flat screen with the quotes can turn toward the shop too, so I can still check in on market while working in the shop.



Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Beautiful fall morning in northeast Iowa

Combined 75 acres yesterday. Average dry yield was 209 vs 185 last year.


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Monday, October 3, 2011

Friday, September 30, 2011

Not so joyous start to the harvest.

Was supposed to start combining today, go out to finish opening up the bins and turns out my dry auger blew over in the wind yesterday.

Gonna be a long weekend.


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Friday, August 26, 2011

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Looks like we may get wet

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So far in IN what you see will be what you get.

The corn northwest if INDY is much more mature compared to what we sampled in ohio yesterday where corn was in early milk stage and therefore many of the samples were very optomistic for ohio.


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Monday, August 22, 2011

Friday, August 12, 2011

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Pulled a few ears this morning


Finally back from Alaska late last night, feels good to be home.

No big surprise that this mornings drive to look at my fields was disappointing and I lowered my yield expectations to 185 for my farm average(which is my 5-yr average and the same farm average as last year). 2 weeks ago I was hoping to set a new high for a farm average corn yield (200+). Oh well, it could be worse.


Beans are looking really good so far, just starting to fill pods.

Friday, July 29, 2011

Feeling a little better

After further investigation, so far this incident is isolated to my refuge in one field. 25 acres total. I hope I have time to check the rest of my fields today before leaving for AK tomorrow.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Rootworm silk feeding ruined my pollination

This is isolated to my refuge (20%) corn so far, but most my other varieties have not gotten to brown silk like this one has.

I dont know what to say other than this is a bad deal. I'm in shock. Plant health in my area is a 10.....and I would roughly estimate yield loss around 20-30% minimum.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Sunday, July 24, 2011