West Alton

Sampled a bit in West Alton today. It was very wet although in corn stalks I did not sink in too much. I did come close to getting stuck in a hole that was wet all summer. They had 2.9 inches of rain. Harvest in our area was held up because of rain. It started up again today between Shipman and Litchfield. I expect to see even more happening tomorrow.
THe picture is some Indian Grass in our Weigh Station Prairie north of Litchfield. Illinois owes it's excellent soils to the fact that prairie grasses accumulated Nutrients and organic matter near the surface for thousands of years before the land was settled and farmed by Europeans. Did the Indians farm? Yes they did, but not as intensely as we do. Loading potash on avariable rate spreader.