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Ian & Val Plagge's Blog – June 2010 Archive (2)

A crazy week of extreme weather

In the past week our area has received hail, large amounts of rain, and strong winds and tornado conditions.



At the end of last week, less than 10 miles west of us, received some very damaging hail. We are happy to say that we just had some fields on the fringe of the hail storm - nothing too serious. Some of our neighbors were not so lucky though. Corn plants are striped to barely just their stalks and some soybean fields don't even look like they've been planted. Not… Continue

Added by Ian & Val Plagge on June 27, 2010 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

Spraying Time

Spring planting went really well for us. We also were able to get our side-dressing done in good time. Now we are concentrating on spraying. We've been able to get quite a bit of spraying done so far and now we've been battling with the rain to finish. Our crops have been growing nicely, and so well that we will be battling the height of the corn soon while trying to finish spraying. Overall we have been pleased with this spring and we hope you all are having good springs too!

Added by Ian & Val Plagge on June 14, 2010 at 1:15pm — No Comments

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