It's Go Time!

Optimum corn planting time for the highest yields is in the later part of April. We are nearly there and the local conditions are excellent.

Reason number one: Anything above 50F is perfect. An old farmer's tale is that it is safe to plant corn when you can sit bare bottomed on the soil. I wasn't about to do that and was defiantly not going to post a pic of that so I took my thermometer to the field.


Reason number two: The trees are all budding out now. Yes, some got frosted off a few weeks ago but now everything is breaking dormancy.


Reason number three: The ground is working up perfectly. For the winter we had, I am shocked at how well the ground is working.

Reason number four: The long term forecast only has a small dip towards 0C early next week and then it is an upward trend from there.

Good Luck and Safe Planting!