Mark Bernard

@GrageDustin Out here in the land of rocks & cows, I see those lights start flashing & it's time to STOP!!!! Those are my neighbor's kids for crissake! Could never face them if I hit one of their kids. ☹️

🚨 JUST IN: Minnesota Democrats are trying to remove the mandatory $500 fine for illegally passing a stopped school bus with its stop-arm extended. What is wrong with these people?

@NWSTwinCities D'oh!

Warm today with the warmer temperatures to the south near I-90. Cooler the rest of the week with our next winter system late Tuesday into Wednesday. Best chance for snow is from south MN to west WI. Gusty winds with the snow will significantly reduce visibility. #mnwx #wiwx

@BerdoMike @FastGrassGuy They need to take lessons from the Whippy Dip in Monroeville IN. Repeat business is the name of the game & I'm going back 1st chance I get 👍

If McDonalds is suing the 4 major meat packers…. Shouldn’t the dairy industry sue McDonalds for the ice cream machine not working……

@LouiseCarduner They are in areas of MN, particularly around the TC, Rochester, & the Sand Plains. Saw them there in the late 70's feeding on strawberries being harvested from test plots at Becker. Ick! 🤮 Have only seen the false Japanese beetles locally. 🪲

@MNWeedWizard That is awful! They seem to do a lot of damage to the plants eh? How far north do they live? Minnesota?

Done sampling Benton Co. & IN on our route! Buh bye bean leaf beetles! Buh bye Japanese beetles! #pftour24

@LouiseCarduner It's what they do that time of year besides chewing the snot out of things. One of my 1st yrs. on Crop Tour they were bad out east. Must've been some crawling on me when we left the field. Found them in my dirty clothes when I got home! 🙄

@MNWeedWizard I had never seen those Japanese beetles before the tour. They freaked me out! It seemed like every one of them was mating?

Coming off #pftour24 with a bang. Dylan Nohner & his crack staff had our PKA Cheviots looking like a million bucks all day. Lotsa class winners. Congrats to Avary Hopper on her Reserve Champion w/a PKA March ewe lamb today & in 4-H yesterday.

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Thanking Pro Farmer, the entire team, scouts, @BGrete, @ChipFlory, @emily_floryag14, @brent8320r, & @iwatchcorn for the great week on #pftour24. Time to exhale a bit then on to MN State Fair Sat.

Thanks MN Soybean. It was a great run. Hope to be able to continue to support MN in other ways. mnsoybean.org/blog-msrpc/all…

@LouiseCarduner Yes, in the 1st photo. They vary in color from yellow to almost brown. Technically they are multi-colred Asian lady beetles.

@MNWeedWizard Are those ladybugs yellow?

Hmmm...wonder what all these ladybugs are doing? Eating soybean aphids in White Co. IN, that's what. Parasitic wasps helping themselves too. #pftour24

Half milk line corn 🌽 in White Co. IN. Dan Sturgill today's hand model. Check is in the mail! #pftour24

Lots of 4 bean pods in this Cass Co. IN sample #pftour24

Lunch at the Whippy Dip Monroeville IN #pftour24

Waterhemp vs. Palmer amaranth: look for the length of the petiole on a mature leaf to tell the difference! Palmer amaranth will have long petioles; waterhemp has short ones. #ISUCrops

Soybean aphids are present on Early planted V4 soybeans in SW MN. Very low numbers at this point. Hope they stay that way.

Here is this week's installment of the Crop & Weather Update! University of Minnesota Extension has an Alfalfa Harvest Alert system which provides growers with data related to the 1st cut of their hay harvest. You can read more at this link: blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu/.../alfalfa...