We use precision ag technology in all of our field operations including planting, tillage, fertilizing, and harvest. Precision agriculture begins with the use of GPS. Our equipment is guided through fields via satellite signals with pinpoint accuracy. The tractors drive themselves in perfectly spaced, repeatable paths across the farm. That is pretty cool on its […]
Farm Week in Pictures has been on hiatus for a few weeks. Several weeks actually. After wheat harvest, I didn’t have a great deal of unique pictures to show off. We spent a lot of days hauling in the rest of the 2013 corn crop, and we spent a week at Disney World. But things […]
Readers, you’re actually getting two weeks worth of farm pictures this time because I didn’t do a post last week. Lucky you! Week one was all about planting with a Friday rain delay. On Saturday afternoon we were back to planting until just after sundown in order to finish a soybean field. That leaves us with […]
A bit of a slow start early this farm week due to wet soils, but by Wednesday we were back to planting again. Take a look! Family Farming Great shot my wife got of our son and me after he spent a whole afternoon (until 9pm) planting popcorn with me. Planting that popcorn! Seed Swap! […]
Farm work this week covered several projects. We wrapped up a couple of things we’ve been working on for a while, and started getting more serious about spring fieldwork. See what we’ve been up to! Let’s Grapple! Our grapple project for the JCB backhoe finally got done last week. We had to do a fair […]
Farm activity this week consisted of working on tractors for a good portion of the week. The 4630 especially got some TLC. We’ve be finishing up installing the loader we bought at auction recently. I started just a little bit of prep on the big Deeres to get ready for tillage and planting. A few […]