Category: Planting

Post relating to planting or seeding a crop.

Double Crop Success

Double Crop Soybeans

What is double crop? This is when a farm harvest two cash crops from the same piece of land in one season. We grow a field or two of wheat every year, and we always like to double crop soybeans right after the wheat is harvested. See the evenly spaced diagonal lines running across the […]

7 Days Make a Difference on the Farm

I’ve been taking pictures every Monday of a field of soybeans and a field of popcorn right near our shop.  I started taking pictures at emergence and will continue to do so through harvest for a future blog post.  I plan on having a slide show of each crop’s progress on a weekly basis so […]

No News is Good News

Haven’t really posted much for you to read lately, but that’s because we’ve been in the field planting!  I’ve been tweeting quite a bit from the tractor, but I can’t read or write much for an extended period without getting motion sick.  And when you get home most nights after dark, working on a blog post is […]