Greenfield IL

Second posting today is unusual, but my first field day in a week. Overall trip about 60% of corn harvested. Between Carlinville and HWY 111. Only a few fields harvested and end rows were rutted and sometimes liquified because of repeated travel with heavy auger wagons. Sampling went well, but the ground was muddy in most places at a depth of 3 inches. I saw a few people doing deep tillage. What a mistake. Chisel points will cause compaction in these muddy conditions. My solution would be to disk very lightly just to cup up residue and get it decomposing. I know a disk is a compaction tool, but at least the compaction will not go as deep. The disking will help residue decompose. Be patient and wait till it is dry enough. If it is still untilled in the spring, at least you will have managed the residue. It might be a good time to consider no further tillage. Bean stubble could get the same treatment or maybe an aerway.

Combines were in the field, maybe not quite full force.

I saw one field soybeans harvested near Shipman on the way home. Combines in a nearby field harvest in beans too.