We had an excellent spring for planting corn, which was unusually dry. We are more often too wet. Corn got nipped off with a frost but came back strong. May have got nipped again last night. But all in all corn looks excellent. Almost too good for this part of the country. Excellent stands.

Running field cultivators over bean ground as we speak and will let lay till about the first of June, when is our earliest good planting date for beans. Mid June is better but that is wheat harvest so try to get them in before that.

Exceptionally dry here. Even too dry for the wheat, which is almost never for us. Ponds are about 12-18" low and have been all winter. One contractor said he dug a hole 6' deep and dry as a popcorn fart. That means we are likely going to have a 12" rain event over a couple days and flood to bring us up to "average" soon. That is the way it goes in SE Kansas. We have been getting half inch rains occasionally which has made excellent conditions for early corn growth and working ground for beans. No subsoil moisture but we don't have a subsoil anyway. Just a clay pan. Internal drainage measured in the hundredths of an inch an hour.

Right now things look good. Patchy frost last night but wheat is filling and likely not enough to damage it.

John