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 [...]
If you don’t count 100 acres of double crop soybeans that got hit pretty hard with frost and won’t be ready for a few more weeks, then harvest is over. We finished the last corn field on Thursday evening just ahead of a bunch of rain. I’ve got ideas for all kinds of posts now [...]
Being efficient is important during harvest for many reasons. When conditions are right you want to get crops harvested in a timely manner while those conditions are still in effect. Maximizing productivity can also cut fuel costs and puts less hours on machinery which preserves value when it’s time to sell or trade equipment. One [...]
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 [...]
