Quentin is chipping away at putting on fertilizer. We had a light shower (0.1") Monday night, but it did not keep them out of the field for too long. They also had some equipment issues, but were able to get up and running again fairly quickly. Quentin hopes to have a good day today and plans to move over to Chambers' ground yet this morning.
For those of you unfamiliar with our strip-till implement, here is a look at the field after they have finished. The ground is broken up in strips, leaving as much of the surface untouched as possible. At the same time, the fertilizer (both dry and anhydrous) is put in the strip down into the future root zone. They will do this on all the fields which will be planted to corn. With the GPS and related software capabilities now available, you can plant precisely in the same strip, which helps those seedlings get off to a good start.
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