Our 2015 planting season began on April 24. It ended on May 23. The season seemed longer than one month because I don’t believe we ever got a full week of planting in due to rains and waiting on particular fields to dry out. Some people think grain farmers like us work hard for just […]
Whoa! A whole month of 2015 is already gone. Even though it’s winter the farm is still pretty active. Last week saw a lot of grain hauling. We hauled a little more this week, but we also worked on a few other projects. Check out this week’s photos as we close out the first month […]
Harvest is starting to near the end on this farm. Several rain delays and generally wet ground conditions have slowed us down, but we’ve got less than 10% to go. Wet Harvest We have had to return to many of our fields multiple times to get crop out due to both grain and ground moisture. […]
It finally happened. We had a full week of dry enough soil and good weather to put in a full week of harvest. There are quite a few less acres on our farm to harvest now. We are now around two-thirds done with harvest. Popcorn When we harvest popcorn all three trucks are usually loaded […]
A varied week of farm activity and inactivity. Got some good days of harvest in, and then it rained a few inches putting us out of commission until it’s dry enough to venture out on the soil again. Passed Out You spend enough time as a passenger in a tractor or combine and you’ll pass […]
Harvest continued this week. We harvested all the soybeans we found were ready to cut aside from the few acres we had to leave because the ground was just too wet to drive across. We got into about 40 acres of corn in two different fields before we called it quits Saturday afternoon. Grain moisture is […]