A grain cart is a great tool for adding efficiency to harvest. A cart keeps a combine moving while spending more time harvesting and less time driving to and from trucks waiting at the edge of a field. Combines are expensive to operate so the less hours a farmer can put on his combine the […]
Not a great variety of pictures this week because we haven’t done a great variety of things. We have hauled a bunch of grain though. Soybeans, waxy corn, and corn to the ethanol plant. Here’s a couple pictures of me loading one of the trucks and something else I think is pretty cool. I […]
On our farm we grow corn, soybeans, popcorn, and wheat. More specifically #2 yellow dent corn, waxy corn, commercial soybeans, soybeans for seed (for two different seed companies), popcorn, and wheat. Let’s start with the regular dent corn. You’ll notice I didn’t say sweet corn. None of the corn we grow (except popcorn) ends up […]
I shot a quick video today while I was loading corn to deliver to the ethanol plant. Nothing fancy, but you can see the auger inside the bin dumping corn into the bottom of the leg. The leg has a looooooooong belt inside of it with dozens of buckets that scoop the corn from the […]