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Aussieker Farms

Family farm focusing on corn, soybeans, and wheat.

04/14/2026

April has been busy!

We should finish up planting first crop soybeans tomorrow if rain holds off. 🫛(close enough to a soybean)
We've gotten a great start on corn planting with about half of our acres in the ground. 🌽
It is nice to have a dry April for the first time in awhile! 👨‍🌾

03/19/2026

It's a beautiful day to pull some soil samples!
We're out pulling samples on a new farm today. This is important for a few reasons.
- We want to see if there are any deficiencies to correct before the season.
- We want to create a benchmark and make sure we're improving the soil from every benchmark we can. We'll test again in 3 or 4 years and will want to compare.

The ground is drying out, too wet to do any fieldwork today but I imagine things will start rolling sometime next week.
Spring is here

02/26/2026

We've been busy applying fertilizer to our wheat this week. Ground conditions are pretty dry but the wheat looks good! It's nice to get back in the tractor and get some work done.

12/19/2025

We were able to get out and visit with some of our landlords this week and give them a Christmas gift to show our appreciation. We are so thankful for the business and personal relationships we have with our landlords, they are a big part of our farm! We hope everyone has a safe and blessed Christmas!

11/18/2025

We finished up harvest a little over a week ago. Sorry for no post sooner it's been a year we'd like to forget. Corn and soybeans both yielded poorly. Thankfully insurance is there to step in a little. All things considered we're still very grateful to be able to do this lifestyle of farming. Next year always looks good, hopefully we can get back to good yields. Prices are finally getting to a decent spot, hopefully that trend continues!

10/17/2025

No-tilling wheat directly into corn stalks that we shelled two days ago. This will be some of the last wheat we seed as the calendar is getting on the later end of where we are comfortable for a plant date.
We've been about rolling non stop with the seeder the past two weeks, we'll have more wheat this year than we've ever grown.
Good chance of rain tomorrow should bring everything we've seeded up.

10/05/2025

Wheat going in the ground!
We're putting on MESZ fertilizer at the same time in furrow which is a combination of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Zinc.

09/28/2025

Cutting beans under the moon

09/17/2025

First day of Harvest

08/25/2025

I feel like we are that dried up SpongeBob meme right now.

We're in a tough area for moisture.
We went into July sitting good. I was looking back at weather data for our farm.

July 1 - 1"
July 14th - 1"
July 16-22 - few scattered rains maybe an inch between them all.
July 27 - 0.1"

We had half a tenth from one storm last week. That's been our total for August.
We've had a few storms in the area but not lucky enough to catch them this year.

Not sure what our yields will be other than less than great. Anywhere from horrible to average is in the cards yet, we'll probably have both depending on which end of the field you are on.
The only bright side is that we should get some good data on the cover crops and no till. I'd expect them to shine in these conditions if anything will.

A rain today would still greatly benefit the soybean crop, especially our late season double crops(after wheat).
I don't think a rain would benefit the corn much at this point, some of it is already completely dead, looks like it's ready to combine.
No rain predicted in the 10 day forecast.

08/12/2025

We wanted to share the results of a trial we did with our most recent wheat crop here in Southern Illinois. Last fall for wheat seeding we did a practice change and started putting DAP(phosphorus and nitrogen) fertilizer in furrow with the wheat seed at planting. Our air seeder has a cart with two hoppers. We put the wheat in one hopper and the fertilizer in another and we can change the rates independently of each other from the tractor cab.

In this trial we compared putting 100 # DAP in furrow vs 200 # DAP spread on the soil surface which is what we would've done in the past. 100 # in furrow is about the max we feel we can do without causing problems with the seed because the fertilizer is so close.

The field we chose has decent phosphorus levels according to university recs, around 80 pounds Phosphorus/acre. This field was no tilled on October 15th after Soybean harvest.

Right away there was a visual difference shown in the first two pictures from November 26th. You could see to the row the difference in the two treatments with the in furrow being more green.

Pictures three and four is another visual comparison taken on March 12th. By that time the wheat had already gotten it's first shot of nitrogen/sulfur and was past green up but you could still pick out the trial visually.

After March the trial was no longer visually different, both treatments looked the same.

Results- the combine monitor tells the true story. I was able to section out the trial and there was a yield difference. The DAP in furrow was 4 bushel better than the DAP spread coming in at 114 vs 110 bushel/acre. Pictures five and six show these results.

Some thoughts- I'm happy with the results. It would be a little disappointing if we saw no yield increase after going through all the trouble of changing seeders. A four bushel increase should gain us $20+/acre most years. I would expect the yield increase to be more in lower fertility fields and later planted fields. Phosphorus is really immobile in the soil so as a mostly no till operation putting it in furrow should be beneficial. I don't give much credit to cutting the DAP rate in half. That's obviously a big cost savings but I'm assuming I'll have to make it up later on. We soil test regularly and will spread phosphorus according to what the soil tests say.

Feel free to share or ask questions. We love talking agronomy/farming and everything that comes with it!

08/08/2025

Last sprayer pass on these soybeans. They look good but need some water.
We are pretty dry at the moment with no relief in sight. Corn has been curling(moisture defense) for a few days now but really corn is kind of a wimp when it comes to drought. Soybeans are just starting to show drought symptoms which means it really is getting pretty dry around us. If we receive some rain soon I think yield hit will be minimal but we need it soon. We are losing bushels every day that we don't get rain at this point. Other than that the crops look good.
Prices are garbage but what else is new. Hopefully we're at a bottom on corn, beans, and wheat and we can get a nice rally into and through harvest. The rest of the country seems to have a record crop so that might be asking alot.

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