It’s still warm and sunny with nothing but a 30% chance of rain late next week so we have been planting since late last week. That’s early. Really early. So early that we are going to finish all the corn acres by the end of the day today. Take a look at what we’ve been up to!
Well Instagram finally came to Android this week, so expect more pictures with cool filters like this!
Look at this guy. Just a few minutes in a tractor makes a lot of kids pass out. He was enjoying my corn ear USB drive before he nodded off. Later he woke up and organized the dirt on the floor of the tractor.
Cultivator on the move. The top few inches of soil is very dry right now.
Ha! I’m a tweet of the month!
Tractor footprint. Some people have been saying this picture plays tricks with the eyes!
Seed getting ready to be loaded on truck or trailer.
I have a mount ordered for my new tablet, but it’s on backorder. We might be done planting before it gets here, but this is kind of the setup I’m going for.
Seeds from the first day of planting last week are putting down roots.
Chris from Small Nebraska Farming invited me to a tractor to tractor Google+ video chat. It worked pretty well, and if I could upgrade my audio with a Bluetooth headset or run the sound through the tractor radio like Chris does it would be about perfect. Click his face to see his blog!
To check seeding population and to make sure our GPS row shut offs are calibrated just right, we tie up some closing wheels so the seed can be seen without digging.
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That planter is awesome! A few passes on our farm and we’d be off to the beach!
It’d be a rough trip getting up to your house!
Wow, fun pictures! It’s cool how you incorporate your online farming with your real-life farming. I’ve been trying to convince my dad on the family farm to consider that as well – what would you suggest to a farmer who thinks he doesn’t have time to tweet? (and other things, we’re taking baby steps here lol)
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks so much! I’d say it doesn’t take much time to tweet! Have you seen a tweet? LOL
Brian, I agree! What makes it worth it though, for you to blog, tweet, etc as a farmer who’s as busy as the rest of us? What do farmers who aren’t active online need to know to convince them that it’s worthwhile?
The biggest things are that I’ve gotten to know a lot of people, farm and non-farm, that I would never have known about otherwise. I’ve also learned so many things from all these people, and a few opportunities have come my way as well.