I had a great idea come to me today while planting popcorn. I’ll pick a field of soybeans and a field of corn at the “home” farm since I’ll see those fields nearly every day. Once the seeds germinate I’ll take a picture in the same spot every week through harvest and then post all […]
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I’m not a big fan of the term conventional agriculture. As a farmer, I know what it means, and I know it references the way I farm. My concern with the term is how it might be interpreted by those who don’t have first hand experience with farming. In my mind the uneducated and inexperienced view […]
According to my Purdue Extension Corn & Soybean Field Guide 2010 Edition the optimum time to plant corn in my area is the last week of April. The last week of April begins in three days, and seeing as the ground is soaked right now and there’s more rain on the way what can a […]
No, I’m not writing this because I’m a forestry expert, I’m writing this because I spent the afternoon with one. We have a neighbor who has recently purchased some woods that are adjacent to some that we own. He had us come out a couple weeks ago to follow the property line and see if […]
Farmers do a lot of recycling. It’s amazing sometimes how much scrap metal we seem to come up with in a year. Between used up sweeps, points, discs, chains, and more from field equipment to stuff that has become junk there’s a lot of metal out there. Do we just dump it in a woods […]