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Sierra Day PLANTED: Corn is in the ground for the 2021 Farm Progress Show, to be held in Decatur, Ill., from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. Host farmer David Brix used his own equipment to plant his share of the field demonstration plots. There’s no bigger vote of confidence than planting field demonstration corn historically a short-season corn and farmers started planting it April 16. The only saying that there’s no faith like a farmer who plants a seed could well apply to the Farm Progress Show, too: There’s no faith like a host farmer who plants 89-day field demo corn. On 350 acres. ....