09/24/2026
Good morning all:
I apologize for the long delay in posting, this summer has been busy and also rough in many ways. As with most of the state, the summer was very hot and dry which created some challenges for sure, but we have had some rain in the past 2 weeks (more than we had all summer actually!) and the temperatures are cooler this week, finally getting away from 100. Below are a few updates from the summer projects as well some pictures. I am planning to get back to weekly, or more frequent at times, updates about what's going on here moving forward as well.
Summer projects: We were fortunate to get some hay early as well as some annual baleage, though like most producers, not as much as normal. We completed our fescue stocker study in early July. Our soil fertility plots are wrapping up and the early harvests were solid, but late summer they had limited forage growth due to weather. From our integrated crop and livestock project, or the "soybean project" as i have referred to it, they l our beans grew pretty well up until mid to late July and then the rain stopped and the heat exploded causing them to stall out. We are going to hopefully be getting the winter cover crops on those fields soon.
Fall projects (specifics will be discussed at these start): Most of our winter wheat for our stocker cattle grazing are in the ground now. Within the past couple of weeks, we received our virtual fence collars we will be using in multiple projects over the next few years. We have some exciting heifer development and cow breeding projects lined out.
I appreciate everyone sticking with me for this long post, I think i hit most of the highlights from the past few months, and I will be back soon with another update.
