Almost done planting corn

Today should winds us up for corn planting except for some spots that may have to be replanted due to being under water. I would say less than 10 acres for us total in some low spots in our fields. We have started planting beans and will move forward with that just as soon as possible. May 11th is very early for us to get this going for us as we are concerned with seed quality of the production acres this year. this has been a very unusual spring here in Central Kentucky as we have gone from 80 degree days in April with very little rain to a deluge of rain where we had about 12 inches in 10 days. That stopped all planting for us. Hopefully we can get our test plot planted this week, I'm anxious to walk the plot and look at how the new varieties emerge compared to some of the varieties that we have had for awhile. It really gets interesting after grain fill and you can see how they react to stress and heat. some central corn belt varieties just don't cut it down here with those combinations of heat and stress. Hope everyone gets their corn planted with great stands and vigor and can get soybeans in the ground also.
Sprayed wheat on Monday with Caramba (fungicide) and Warrior II (insecticide) to see how they will work to help with wheat diseases and germination as the wheat will be for seed. If you have any questions or comments please post or send me an email.

Floods, rain, early planting, soybean rates

I hope everyone survived the deluge of rain this past weekend. We have 600 of the anticipated 750 acres of corn planted. We started April 7 (earliest ever for the farm)and planted until the rains of April 23rd came. We have slowed down since then as we don't want to get on fields to wet and cause compaction problems. We have only about 3 acres of corn under water so we won't have to replant too much. Corn looks good so far and we will start sidedressing and post herbicide spraying next week. It will be good to compare some of the earlier planting of corn results to a later planting of corn this year.

Just as soon as corn is finished we will be planting soybeans. We will be using some new things for soybeans this year and I will keep you posted on how they work out. All of are beans will be treated with Trilex 2000, Gaucho 600, and most will be inoculated with Optimize 400 which has an LCO promoter to promote better plant health and we hope better quality beans and yield. We also will be using AMP(LCO promoter) to spray on some beans and corn under a program with EMB for growers. It will be a busy and interesting year for me to look at what is happening. Our main goal is to increase the quality of our soybeans as these are all seed beans.