McKay Farms completes successful Harvest 2018

Harvest 2018 is complete bringing a bountiful harvest to McKay Farms in Beecher City, Illinois. The 2018 Harvest produced the highest yields and took many helping hands to complete. We were fortunate to capture the wonderful harvest season with many photographs and hope to share with you our moments over the upcoming months. We will continue to work on fall tillage before the heavy rains come in the upcoming weeks.

Soybean Harvest

Jason and Dan McKay in deep discussion

Dumping Corn at McKay Farms

Rita McKay and her grandchildren enjoying Fall 

McKay Farms at Grain Elevator in Cowden

McKay Farms begin Harvest 2018 in Beecher City

Harvest started in the middle of September and has brought us great yields and exciting memories. That #Harvest18 season has experienced wonderful weather outside of today which resulted in 1-3 inches of rain in the area. Blake McKay has been busy with the drone capturing some unbelievable aeriel shots that could not have been accomplished without new technologies. Check out the pictures below and expect many more pictures to be published soon. Happy Harvest!!

Thumbs up to Harvest Season

Benson enjoying combine ride

Jason McKay standing on Semi

Joey and Benson

#Plant18 complete for McKay Farms in Central Illinois

McKay Farms has successfully completed their corn and soybean #plant18 season. The delayed start was due to a colder than normal Spring but temperatures warmed up quickly, especially in the last week. We are blessed to complete the planting season with only a couple breakdowns and a few flat tires. Most of our corn has emerged and is looking great. Check out our pictures below of our 2018 Planting Season!

Jason McKay & Dan McKay #Plant18

McKay Farms, Beecher City, Illinois

Darin McKay disking field outside Cowden, IL

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Corn emerging & Looking great!

Tyler McKay farming in Central Illinois 

Harvest 2017 begins for McKay Farms

Today we begin #Harvest17 in front of our homestead in Beecher City. Corn moisture is good due to the recent high temperatures in Illinois. We are excited to begin another Harvest Season!!

McKay Farms begins #Plant17 on April 19th

For the second consecutive year, McKay Farms begins the Planting Season on April 19th. An extremely mild February followed by a wet spring delayed the early planting season. We are excited to be back at work with over 100 acres planted in the first full day. 

Tyler McKay lobbies Politicians in DC

Mr. Tyler McKay spent the week meeting with Speaker Ryan (WI), Senator Ernst (IA), Senator Grassley (IA), Senator Daines (MT), new Ambassador to China Terry Branstad and new Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke. Discussions were focused on elimination of WOTUS, preservation of rural land, fair trade for farmers and the upcoming Farm Bill.

Ambassador to China Terry Branstad

Chairman of Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley

Speaker of House Paul Ryan

Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke

Senator Joni Ernst

Top 3 Photos from #Harvest16

We would like to share our top 3 most popular photos from #Harvest16. After hundreds of hours of hard work and dedication, we are blessed to finish another bountiful harvest.

#3  A grey scale photo of beautiful corn stalks with huge clouds in background.

# 2  Dan McKay, hardest worker of the family using our brand new hopper bottom dumping into bins at home.

#1  Three generations of McKay Farms with Baby Benson experiencing his first Harvest season and Benson McKay greatly enjoyed a ride in the combine from his father Jason.

#Harvest16 for McKay Farms is finished!

After many long days of work and hard work by Dan McKay and his sons, we are proud to say #Harvest16 is successfully finished. Harvest makes Fall the best season of the year and allows the family to come together to accomplish one goal. We will now begin preparing for #Plant17 with soil testing, fall tillage and tractor maintenance.

More Pictures of Harvest 2016

Another successful week of shelling corn contributed to these pictures below. With corn nearly complete, we will be switching to cutting beans this upcoming week.

Great Start to Harvest 2016

The weather has been perfect over the past week allowing the family to begin operations on Harvest 2016. A busy and successful week of over 250 acres of corn shelled and contributions from the entire family. We will have a lot of pictures to share over the next coming weeks as Harvest season is here!

Plant 2016 is in full speed!

Spring is here and Planting Season has arrived! Rain has delayed the process some including over an inch last night throughout all of Central Illinois. We have over 80% of corn planted and praying for some sunshine to get back at work. Currently, 57% of corn in Illinois has been planted. Check out a few pictures from #Plant16.

Time to Clean the Farm Equipment!

Blake McKay washing John Deere

Tyler McKay cleaning Brent Grain Cart

Harvest 2015 is over and preparations are made each day for the coming year. The beautiful weather lately has been great to allow us to clean our farm machinery before storing for the long winter ahead. We have most of the equipment cleaned up but still have to finish a few tractors and the hardest piece- the combine.