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Howdy, I think I figured out how to post!! I'm located in Jackson Co. Mn. along I 90, in lakefield area. Soybeans: we have plant height of 4.5 ft. after a slow start, they really spurted in the last 6 weeks. Almost unreal, sprayed for aphids couple weeks ago, not finding any on checks except on one end where boom skipped. There are a few aborted flowers, but for the most part they are looking really good. Hail storm in area caused havoc on some fields. Corn: high yield potental barring an early frost, silks brown, could use one more rain, recieved moisture last week, wind has been calm for nearly 3 weeks. I attended a controlled drainage plot last friday, looks promising and may be something one would consider . Thw gist of it is, remove water for field operations, retain a subsurface level for crop use in periods of reduced rainfall. Regards, John III

Hard to believe that the Missouri River Bottom fields looked like this in June. Today we're drying out too fast. Some of the corn has started to fire the last couple of days, and east of here 20 miles it's even dryer.
Early planted corn will be pretty good, especially in the upland fields, but the later fields are going to be short.
Aphid counts in the soybeans are on the rise. We've never had to treat for those, but this year may be a first. Without rain soon it looks like the soybeans may start aborting pods.

At least the temperatures have been moderate, otherwise it would be worse.

hot in il

this past week has been very hot in il. with heat advisories over the past few days. the crops seem to be managing ok do to adequate moisture. beans seem to moving along somewhat slow compared to corn. the corn between the wet holes looks great. there has been alot of fungicide applied the past few weeks. we chose not to apply. grain prices at local coop this morning, c-4.75, sb-12.29. fert prices at coop n-1095, dap-1200, pot-970. for those who dont know that equals about 300 per acre to fertilize for corn. and farmers savior monsanto jacked the tech fee 100 per bag on seed corn. that is at least to company's who by their traits.