Drain Tile Install on Farm

Drain Tile Installation on a Farm via thefarmerslife.com

Another fall, another drain tile installation. This time we are adding a drainage system to a spot on the farm that frequently sees water damage. Even a potential total crop loss in the lowest spots of the field. This is going to be a great improvement to the farm for many years to come. Our […]

A Corn Head that Folds

Folding Corn Head via thefarmerslife.com

The time has come for a corn head upgrade. We ran our John Deere 612C for seven seasons, and for the last few years we’ve have some gearbox issues including replacing a couple of them for a hefty parts bill. A new 712FC late in 2019, and now it’s here from the factory near the […]

Wheat Harvest Drone Video

Wheat Harvest via thefarmerslife.com

Wheat Harvest 2019 We grow soft red winter wheat which is planted in the fall, and harvested the following summer. Usually harvest begins the first week of July which was true again in 2019. Wheat was growing during the cool, wet spring of corn and soybean planting so it was slow to develop.  We did […]

What is the Purpose of Corn Silk?

What is the Purpose of Corn Silk? via thefarmerslife.com

That stringy stuff on your sweet corn serves a very important purpose. So important you wouldn’t have sweet corn to eat without corn silk. It’s kind of annoying because most of it comes off when you peel back the husk, but some of it seems to really want to hang on the ear. There are […]