| JDPlowboy - 3/16/2018 19:11
His soil was a long ways from the best.
It is currently woods.
He built the soil up and paid great attention to detail.
I would doubt it is in woods unless Bloomington has swallowed his ground and I don't think it has. Now, maybe he left it to the Nature Conservancy or some other deal and they put it in woods or some crazy stuff but as to his soil being far from the best, you are sorely mistaken. Yes, it was a badly mismanaged farm when he bought it in the 1940's and he corrected those issues. Take it from someone born in McLean county with deep ties to it. McLean has very, very little poor ground. It is always one of the top three or so counties for corn yields in Illinois. Other than a few isolated areas like Funk's Grove, a few patches west of town on my old neighborhood, or something under DNR control like Moraine View State Park, it is almost exclusively cleared and row cropped land. |
What happened to Herman Warsaw's favorite corn seed variety?
