I recently attended BlogHer in New York City. Yep, me. A male farm blogger. I have been looking for ways to achieve the common AGvocate goal of reaching beyond the choir of our agricultural peers. Going to a blogging conference with emphasis on the “Her” portion was certainly a way for me to reach out. Not that […]
Fertilizing corn is one of the largest expenses on our farm, and Nitrogen (N) is the biggest contributor to that cost. Over that last few seasons we have changed our N program quite a bit with goals of improving corn yield, more effective application timing, and reducing costs. In recent years we have stepped away […]
Our crops our changing across the farm. Summer is coming to a close and fall harvest season will be upon on soon. Seasonal Soybeans We planted some early maturing soybean varieties this year, and many of them are beginning to drop leaves already. Drier spots started to change in these early beans when we had dry weather […]
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 […]
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 […]