Harvest is starting to near the end on this farm. Several rain delays and generally wet ground conditions have slowed us down, but we’ve got less than 10% to go. Wet Harvest We have had to return to many of our fields multiple times to get crop out due to both grain and ground moisture. […]
Harvest continued this week. We harvested all the soybeans we found were ready to cut aside from the few acres we had to leave because the ground was just too wet to drive across. We got into about 40 acres of corn in two different fields before we called it quits Saturday afternoon. Grain moisture is […]
Farm Week in Pictures is changing tunes again. Harvest all but ended on Monday, and we’ve gone from a single focus of harvesting to all kinds of projects happening this week. Take a look! Corn Conclusion Getting ready to start one of the final days of corn harvest. All we have left to cut is […]
It’s almost time to reap what we’ve sown on the farm this year. But not quite. We’ll start harvesting next week at least a little bit if not all out. This past week we’ve checked on the maturing crop, sealed up grain bins, and prepped our equipment. Take a look! Corn from Above I always […]
With this Farm Week in Pictures 2013 is halfway over. Corn and soybeans are growing and will be entering the reproductive phases soon while wheat dries down for a summer harvest. As the first half of the year closes take a look at what we’ve been doing the past week. Stormy Weather Seems like a […]
Farm Week in Pictures brings a close to the planting season this week. We put in a long day Sunday, and finished on Wednesday, May 22 which happens to be our wedding anniversary. With planting over outside of a replant situation and hopefully being able to double crop soybeans after wheat what is on the […]