Happy New Year and thanks to everyone who has visited this blog in 2012! Here’s a rundown of some stats provided by WordPress. I had more than double the traffic here than I did in 2011. Let’s see if we can double it again in 2013! Thanks again for reading, commenting, sharing, and subscribing. See [...]
Harvest began this week! And that’s pretty much what we’ve been up to! In a post earlier this week I talked about what kind of yields we’ve seen so far as a result of the drought. Different soil types have different capacities for yield, but this year the changes from one part of a field [...]
Yesterday we finished harvesting our first field after this long summer of drought. The end result was a nice surprise with the yield monitor in the combine showing 151 bushels per acre average. I saw yields in this field anywhere from 30 bushles to just over 300 in what are normally low, wet spots. Based [...]
The Southern part of our county experienced a large hail storm two days ago. The storm caused some significant damage to crops. I went for a drive this afternoon so I figured I would drive to the affected area and snap a few pictures. Harvest is going to be difficult due to the damage not [...]
About two weeks ago we learned USDA Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Michael Scuse was going to be touring the Midwest surveying the effect of drought and extreme heat across the Corn Belt. Our farm ended up as a stop on the tour because my sister, who recently starting working at our local FSA office, suggested [...]
