Are you hosting or attending an Oscar party tonight? If so maybe you’ll be partaking in the popular movie treat known as popcorn, and there’s some small chance our family farm may have raised that popcorn! Each year we dedicate somewhere between 10-15% of our acreage to popcorn production. Growing popcorn isn’t much different from […]
Corn and soybeans are obviously very different crops. Corn is tall and generally has a single ear per plant. Soybeans are relatively short and are covered in pods full of seeds we need to harvest. We have one combine, but we employ two different heads for each crop. The same head we use for beans […]
Wow it’s November already! Harvest is coming to a close on this farm week in pictures. Soon harvest will be history, but we’ve still got a lot of work before it is over! Young Farmer Our son headed to the office. Corn, Corn, Corn This week was all about corn harvest. Take in the sights! […]
The odds are if you come to visit Scott Farms on a given day you won’t find us cutting corners at work. But sometimes we make an exception. Corn grows tall. Tall enough that it can cause trouble at intersections on roadways. So we and many of our neighbors go around about this time of […]
Farm Week in Pictures is inching closer to harvest every week. Crops have entered the grain fill stages which means most of what happens from now on is no longer in our hands. We still have plenty of work to do around the farm from selling and hauling the last loads of the 2012 crop […]
Farm Week in Pictures for the last full week of July 2013 offers up some rough looking corn despite how well the crop appears to be doing this year. We are also getting ready to say goodbye to our 2010 9670 STS combine. Army of ManyA neighbor stopped by first thing Monday morning to let […]