End & Beginning

Partners,

Another week of rain and work between showers. Corn and beans are growing well and fast as we try to get side dressing done and corn spraying completed. We received over 2 inches on all farms last weekend and looks like another half inch this weekend. Our grain hauling pace has picked up and we intend to have everything delivered by the middle of July. We have been aggressive sellers of our unpriced inventory and have very little remaining. There was no spring rally due to excellent planting window and conditions. With the fields looking so good price slides continue.

Fall bids:

Corn 3.38

SB 8.85

There are two college graduates here that have been excellent team members at Hess Family Farm for the last couple of years: Mitch and Aaron from the WIU Ag Department. Mitch majored in Ag Business and Aaron in Agronomy. We've had a lot of good college help over the years here and appreciate them all. We are going to miss these two as they go on to careers in their fields and provide a new round of innovation and enthusiasm that the agriculture industry needs to stay vital and progressive. Best wishes to them both as they end their college time and go out into the real world. They will both succeed in whatever they choose to do.

Families are doing well, and with school out the summer schedule has begun. Lots of sports, swimming, picnics and travel. Our project list is already longer than we will probably accomplish but the weather this spring so far has allowed us to get a lot of things done we normally wouldn't have time for.