7 days and counting!

We leave Champaign one week from today. Our route of nearly 1,600 miles includes 14 plus crop stops, a couple of grower visits, a couple of end users visits, a college world series game and a visit to a Guinness world record site (to be discussed at a later date).

We have a couple of sponsors this year. Special thanks goes out to Andersons Agvantage Agency and Precision Agronomics for helping out with the cost of the trip. $3.50 gas and hotel rooms eat through anyone's budget. Watch next week as we link to a daily video!

I will kickoff later this week the "pretour" with a post from a couple of stops in East Central Illinois. These areas are in mild drought to very moist (having received 8 inches of rain in early May). Mostly this will give me time to test the technology and be sure that our "live blogging" system is going to work.

Invite your friends and collegues to follow along as we document the Western Cornbelt next week!