farming

John Deere 4630 at Work

4630 Snow

Regular readers are sure to have spied shots of the John Deere 4630 we picked up last summer at auction.  To date all you’ve seen are still pictures of the tractor in the shop getting cleaned up or tuned up, and maybe a few shots of it running an auger to load corn.  You may [...]

How a Farmland Auction Works

Dad, Grandpa, my wife, and I went to a farm auction tonight.  We didn’t purchase the farm, but I thought I’d do a quick rundown of the auction process for all of you readers. Farm land auctions work a little bit differently than a normal auction.  As you can see there are two tracts for [...]

Ram Trucks Wins Superbowl with “So God Made a Farmer”

I’m certain a great deal of you were watching the Ravens and 49ers play tonight.  The Superbowl has become such an event that people tune in for the commercials as much or even more so than for the game itself. Well this year Ram takes the cake for best commercial in my book.  Take a [...]

2012 in review

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 [...]

The Peterson Bros are Farming and They Grow It

The Peterson brothers have gone viral in a major way with their latest YouTube effort “I’m Farming and I Grow It” which is a parody of LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It.” The video was posted two days ago, and as of this writing it has been viewed 395,036 times.  Amazing and fantastic considering the boys [...]