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 […]
A grain cart is a great tool for adding efficiency to harvest. A cart keeps a combine moving while spending more time harvesting and less time driving to and from trucks waiting at the edge of a field. Combines are expensive to operate so the less hours a farmer can put on his combine the […]
Those who keep up with this blog and the associated facebook and twitter accounts know we bought our first draper head for soybean and wheat harvesting. So why did we decide to trade our conventional cutting platform, which also flexed, for a John Deere 635FD? I think it may help readers to know what is […]
The farm is in full harvest mode. Not much else is going on except for harvest. I spend most of my time doing all things combine related. Dad keeps the corn dryer running and transfers corn between bins and checks fields and grain to see if we need to tweak any combine settings. Grandpa and […]
I’m soaked through to my unmentionables. The grain dryer was nearing capacity and we were about to move on to another field. When we left for lunch to let the dryer catch up a bit the grain cart was fully loaded (and untarped) and the combine was partially loaded. I drove home and made a […]
It’s harvest time on the farm! I told you it was probably going to start this week! Let’s get to it! They’re all Here! New toys finally arrived to the farm on Monday just before harvest commenced on Tuesday. Here we have a new (to us) combine and my awfully close to new truck. I […]