Champaign update

Wheat harvest started Monday, but machines were grunting and groaning due to a wet crop. Yields I heard were 65 to 90 bu/A. With rains last evening, we have halted harvest for a day or two.

Corn has started to tassel on the earliest planted fields. Most of our corn is now at least shoulder high, although there is some later planted corn that is just knee high.

Soybeans continue to suffer with wet feet, every time we get a few days of drier weather they perk up, show some good color - then get smacked again and look poor for a couple of more days. We have started flowering, and the sentinel plot has 8-10 leaves per plant. Many of the 15-inch row beans have yet to canopy over.

Hay - some went down over the weekend. Maybe we finished the first cutting? - but I don't think so.