Most farmers closed out this crop year with good yields of corn, small grains, and forages. The slight snow cover is insulating the soil and slowing the frost from entering the ground. With 6.0 inches of snow, all fieldwork was done before getting ready for deer hunting. Four inches of snow and cold weather slowed fall tillage and completion of the corn harvest. Yields this year were back to normal.
Beans seem to be down more than corn.
Have seen a lot of lime spread and manure hauling this week. Winter wheat up nice and green and looks good. Most people getting odds and ends done and ready for winter. Yields were down from last year. Soybeans, like corn, are 99 percent harvested, but some yields not as good as last year, due to white mold.