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 […]
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Any and all posts related to reaping what we sow!
Yesterday we finished harvesting our first field after this long summer of drought. The end result was a nice surprise with the yield monitor in the combine showing 151 bushels per acre average. I saw yields in this field anywhere from 30 bushles to just over 300 in what are normally low, wet spots. Based […]
During this “interesting” growing season I’ve been talking about corn with Cathryn Wojcicki aka @CornyCate from National Corn Growers Association. She works on a series of podcasts with various farmers around the nation to get a feel for how the corn crop is progressing. I get a call from Cathryn every couple of weeks to talk […]
Our combine doing its thing during this year’s harvest!
This afternoon my wife and I took my son along with my sister and her husband out for some agritourism at Exploration Acres near Lafayette, Indiana. They have a lot of things to do there, but the main attraction is the corn maze. There are 25 stations within the corn maze each sponsored by a local […]