Shelby Weckel
Soy Envoy
shelby@ehlerbros.com

Shelby Weckel
Soy Envoy
shelby@ehlerbros.com

SHELBY WECKEL UPDATES

Region 5 | June 14, 2024 | Champaign

Shelby Weckel
shelby@ehlerbros.com

SYNOPSIS

After a busy week of finishing up planting, replanting and every other aspect of farming, we received a rain last night that will help us make it through the approaching heatwave.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBES CURRENT CONDITIONS IN THIS COUNTY?
Mildly Wet (soil is wetter than normal, local vegetation is healthy)
PRECIPITATION

.35″ of rain last week and we received .9 of rain on 6/13-14.

FIELD/SOIL CONDITIONS

The soils were still fairly firm after the pounding rains we received 2 weeks ago. But a lot of field activities have been occurring to catch up with how fast this crop is growing.

SOYBEAN GROWTH STAGE

VE-v4. Soybeans continue to be in their slow growing ugly stage.

CORN GROWTH STAGE

VE-v6. The early planted corn gas really taken off and is looking good. The later planted corn really needed this precipitation.