Highway 258 Bridge Closing Near Harvest Land

As a simple reminder Highway 258 East of HLC will be closed until September 1st as they are taking the bridge out. If you have any questions on how to get to HLC with the road construction please call 507-723-7350. Below we have listed the detoured roads. Motorists will be detoured to Brown County Road [...]

Year of the Farmer Co-op

Check out this great video on the Year of the Farmer Co-op!

Crop Progess Report-May 14, 2012

Corn Planted – Selected States [These 18 States planted 92% of the 2011 corn acreage] —————————————————————–                  :            Week ending            :                  :———————————–:       State      :  May 13,  :  May 6,   :  May 13,  : 2007-2011                  :   2011    :   2012    :   2012    :  Average —————————————————————–                  :                    percent                  : Colorado ……..:    68          58          84          63 Illinois ……..:    [...]

Wabasso FFA State Convention Results

6 teams placed in the gold category   Food Science – 2nd high team 3rd high individual – Amber Brau   Dairy Foods -3rd high team 1st high individual – Danielle Kramer   Poultry – 4th High team   Livestock  15th place team – 3rd High Individual – Paige Netzke   Crops – 8th High [...]

USDA PRODUCTION REPORT MAY 10, 2012

Report seen as: Bearish Corn; Bullish Beans   Note: Ending Stocks in Million bushels.   2011/12 Ending Stocks                                                      April 10th                 May 10th                                                           USDA                       USDA   Corn                                    801                            851   Soybeans                             250                            210   Wheat                                  793                            768       Note: World Stocks in millions of metric tons   2011/12 World Stocks   April 10th                  [...]

Tribute to Farmers

USDA CROP PROGRESS – May 7, 2012

Corn Planted – Selected States [These 18 States planted 92% of the 2011 corn acreage] —————————————————————–                  :            Week ending            :                  :———————————–:       State      :  May 6,   : April 29, :  May 6,   : 2007-2011                  :   2011    :   2012    :   2012    :  Average —————————————————————–                  :                    percent                  : Colorado ……..:    42          22          58          40 Illinois ……..:    [...]

Burndown with Residual in Soybeans

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Burndown with residual in Soybeans. 5/3/2012 Recently we have received quite a few calls on using a burn-down in soybeans. In the past these questions mostly came from patrons who no-tilled soybeans. This spring, the unusually warm early temps have geminated a lot of broadleaves (especially lambsquarter), both in tilled and untilled fields which many [...]

USDA Crop Progress Report April 30th,2012

Corn Planted – Selected States [These 18 States planted 92% of the 2011 corn acreage] —————————————————————–                  :            Week ending            :                  :———————————–:       State      : April 29, : April 22, : April 29, : 2007-2011                  :   2011    :   2012    :   2012    :  Average —————————————————————–                  :                    percent                  : Colorado ……..:    16          10          22          18 Illinois ……..:    [...]

Sleepy Eye FFA high rankings at State

2012 State FFA Convention Results: Poultry:  3rd Place Team – Gold       Brandon Roiger – 7th Place Individual Gold Jamie Fischer – 16th Place Individual Gold Tia Cselovszki – Gold Austin Trebesch     Soils:  3rd Place Team – Gold Matt Schroepfer – 3rd Place Individual Gold Jake Trebesch – 11th Place Individual Gold Josh Kotten [...]