We skipped a week, but Farm Week in Pictures is back. Last week was pretty much all pictures of the same thing that I’m saving for a different post in the near future. The scenery is changing a bit as we move from planting and fertilizing to other tasks around the farm. Take a look [...]
This Farm Week in Pictures brings you a week full of planting! We are nearly done. Corn finished up early in the week and we spent about two days on popcorn. We are working on soybeans now, and they should be done in a few days if we don’t see rain. Tomorrow we start with [...]
After than long, wet April Farm Week in Pictures finally brings you planting shots! Monday through Thursday we planted corn. Of course Plant 13 keeps us pretty busy, but it came to a standstill right at 5pm on Thursday with a brief rain shower. Friday was a dreary day, so soil didn’t dry out. The [...]
Dad and I spent some time this morning working up our yearly chart that will come along for the ride in the planter tractor. This chart is a baseline for certain settings on the planter than need to be changed in relation to seed size. Sizing corn and soybean seed is an important step in [...]
We’re already a week into April! Last year that meant we’d been planting corn for a week. Luckily things are somewhat normal this spring despite a cold March. We haven’t even looked at the planter yet, let alone hook a tractor to it. We’re pushing 70 this weekend and rain is in the forecast, and [...]
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 [...]
