“My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman and a preacher, but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.” – Brenda Schoepp

Looked at a lot of wheat over the past week and not seeing any head damage from the frost event. Lot of questions about this due to damage seen in ‘07 but that event was much colder and occurred over multiple nights...wheat was at similar stage though...

Observing a fair amount of scab in our wheat. Fields that were treated at flowering also have some scab but much less than non-treated from what I looked at this morning. Also appears that fields sprayed on the very early side of the treatment window have the least scab.

A plugged up row on the drill is a handy thing when you’re five! Good looking field of wheat near Vandalia, Missouri.

Congratulations Lauryn Robnett and Colin Wilburn!!!

Missouri FFA 2020-2021 State Officer Team

When using a hoop to assess soybean pops you can either get a fancy chart with all kinds of multipliers for different sized hoops or just cut yours down to 28” so you can use 10K. It also makes your 5 yr old wonder why dad is cutting up a perfectly good hula hoop😃

Beyond Meat plummets 10% after McDonald's ends Canadian trial with no plans to continue (BYND) markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/be…

Popillia japonica: feeds on over 300 plant species. Corn is most vulnerable during pollination. If silks are getting clipped to 1/2”, pollination is less than half done and 3 beetles per ear are present, spray. Scouting prior to pollination is critical.

Japanese beetles are no fun but it could be worse! Found this dude in the backyard.

Future Crop-Trak Consultant? Surveying the beetle situation and staging beans.

Applying nitrogen can give pastures a boost agupdate.com/iowafarmertoda… via AgUpdate

Great article in the Missouri Conservationist this month on controlling bush honeysuckle...more info here mdc.mo.gov/trees-plants/p…

Rain and mud chased us inside for our NE MO plot tour/field day but still having a great day and an awesome turnout! Thanks to our presenters from MFA’s Seed-Agronomy Team...Deanna Smith, Dara Boardman, Tommy Lee and Cameron Horine.

Rain on July 30th is a great thing but we will be moving our NE Mo “plot tour” inside!

I was curious how much it rained today but I don’t have a gauge out...fortunately the sunroof was left open on the car last night so I was able to measure the water in the cupholders. We had about an inch. 😃

BREAKING: XtendFlex Soybeans approved by EU. These include tolerances to glyphosate, dicamba and glufosinate. Stay tuned as this story will be updated as more information becomes available. #dicamba #Xtend #XtendFlex agweb.com/article/xtendf…

Wheat freeze injury info...

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