We had a busy week on the farm. We tended to our field borders, walked popcorn for rocks, inspected the growing crop, learned about the latest tech, fixed broken things, and I finished the week by heading over to Illinois for some additional education on unmanned aerial vehicle use in agriculture. Protecting the Border Each […]
It was an up and down week on the farm for weather. Spring was here at one point, but winter came right back just to be followed by spring again. March is always a toss-up around here. Planting season is going to be here one of these days, but until then we still have things […]
This week on the farm brought on more tractor cleaning, some shop cleaning, a public open house, corn hauling, truck modification, and paperwork. Clean and Green John Deere Tractors The 9320 had its turn with the pressure washer this week followed by a good coat of wax. All the equipment is pretty well clean now! […]
Ok, blog readers. This might be the least amount of pictures for Farm Week in Pictures ever. Why would that be? Well I was only on the farm one day. I spent the rest of the week doing farm-like things, but I believe they are worthy of their own posts. So please enjoy all two […]
The weather finally got back to normal a bit this week. We did some work outdoors this week, and we picked up some new equipment. I spent some time working on agnerd stuff on the laptop. This time last year we were already in the field planting corn. Well that ended in a prolonged drought […]
Being efficient is important during harvest for many reasons. When conditions are right you want to get crops harvested in a timely manner while those conditions are still in effect. Maximizing productivity can also cut fuel costs and puts less hours on machinery which preserves value when it’s time to sell or trade equipment. One […]