This is a short week after taking Memorial Day off. I spent most of the week hauling corn, both dent and waxy, that we have sold recently. We’ve also had some good progress on getting the old model 45 combine cleaned up and tuned up in hopes of cutting some wheat with it soon. Enjoy […]
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You may remember a while back when I wrote a post about biotech sweet corn, and how it could greatly reduce pesticide applications. Thanks to the popularity of that post (which still gets hits almost daily) I was afforded an opportunity by Monsanto to take delivery of a few freshly harvested ears of Seminis® Performance […]
In our area once you get North of US 24 soils start to get sandy. The terrain gets a little hilly in places, and the sandiest areas are often the highest. This year we didn’t perform any tillage on our sandiest fields, and judging by what I saw yesterday that was a good idea. It’s […]
Just wanted to make a quick post over lunch today to show how we load bulk seed into our tender that fills the planter. We can get six boxes loaded into it if needed, but we often just do two or three. In the video you can see that I have to unlatch the slide […]