Recapping the 2019 U.S. Soybean Crop Results
Plantings and Crop Ratings The 2019 U.S. soybean crop has been one that many growers likely won’t soon forget. According to the U.S. Department of…
U.S. Soybean Harvest Surpasses Halfway Mark
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) weekly Crop Progress report estimated that 62% of the 2019 U.S. soybean crop had been harvested as of October…
August USDA Inputs Prove Somewhat Supportive for Soybean Market
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) revised its 2019 U.S. soybean planted area estimate to 31.039 million hectares from its June acreage forecast at 32.391…
U.S. Soybean Harvest Enters Final Stretch
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) estimated that 91 percent of the 2018 U.S. soybean crop had been harvested as…
This is Harvest
Harvesting a Crop That’s Sustainable for the World, Future Generations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ0JzlktdKM Hartke Swine Center, Inc., is a family farm located in Teutopolis, Illinois, right in…
Rain Slows Harvest
This week Ron Kindred, a soybean farmer and chair of the Illinois Soybean Association Marketing Committee shared that while rain has slowed down his soybean…
Snow Left Moist Start for Week
This week Jared Hagert is still harvesting his soybean crop, with a little more than one thousand acres left to go. It’s been wet in…
High Yield Despite Rain
This week USB farmer-leader Keith Kemp shared with us that it’s one of his best soybean yielding years. Currently he is finishing-up soybean harvest despite…
Corn Harvesting Week
While the soybeans are not quite ready to come out of the fields on Bob Henry’s farm, corn harvest is underway this week. Bob reported…
Preparing for Harvest
This week we caught up with Randy Mann, a soybean farmer from Auburn, Ky. Mann says he has been busy harvesting corn, and he’s also…