News — growing season

Planting season is here again! Well, it’s been here a few weeks already…Most farmers in the area are close to finishing up their corn and some are finished with beans. We planted our popcorn (3 varieties this year!) on Monday April, 24.

Happy 4th of July weekend!  I hope you and your family have a chance to celebrate our great country and appreciate the unique freedoms we are afforded.  Thanks to all who have served to protect our rights!  Now, on to popcorn... The weather has officially turned.  April and May's cool, wet days have been replaced with a hot and dry June - 90's to 100's in the middle of the month.  The heat is good for the crops and they have really grown.  The lack of rain however, isn't good.  We've been irrigating to provide the crops with water.  A...

So, the CEO/CFO/Marketing Director finally forced me to write my first blog post.  So far, I've been able to come up with excuses like planting, field work, yard work, chasing kids, changing oil on the flux capacitor, etc.  Last night we had around 3 inches of rain at the farm...no excuses were going to work this time.  I've never written a blog post before so here goes nothing....be kind! It's pretty exciting to get into the field after winter. We don't have a heated shop yet, so working on equipment can be cold!  Once March and April rolled around, area...