Farm Week in Pictures is changing tunes again. Harvest all but ended on Monday, and we’ve gone from a single focus of harvesting to all kinds of projects happening this week. Take a look!
Corn Conclusion
Getting ready to start one of the final days of corn harvest. All we have left to cut is 78 acres of double crop soybeans which aren’t ready to harvest yet.
Captioned on Facebook as “What does the rabbit see?”
Truckin’
Fall colors are instagram worthy.
The last of it.
Now What?
The tile installer is back. We’ll be adding about 11 miles worth of 4″ drain tile to the system we started last year. I don’t have a picture, but we also have a neighboring farm applying hog manure on another part of this same field.
Cleaned up around the bins this week. This is the sump in the pit at the dump. Even with the lid block all light corn will still sprout in a concrete hole! It took me a while to pull all this out. The roots and shoots had even grown through the hole in a cinder block that steadies the sump pump.
The 4630 heading out on mowing duty.
We attended a farm auction which was the first of several coming soon in our area. We were pretty close to getting Tract 3, but stopped bidding knowing that more productive land closer to home was coming up for sale very soon.
At harvest you always find trees that have fallen during the growing season. Fall and winter are the time to clean them up!
Tillage Time
I spent some time in the new tractor running the vertical till. So far it seems to be doing a really good job managing corn residue and leaving a level surface. The new tractor is very nice too! Drives excellent on the road, and does great work in the field. This cab is much quieter than our other machines.
A hydraulic hose developed a leak. Ended up needing to put several gallons of fluid back in the tractor after we put a new hose on the VT.
Big Radish
Our hired hand brought this tillage radish from a field next to his house. The cover crops in this field were planted in the summer after wheat harvest. Our radishes planted several weeks later are about 6″ deep and less than an inch around. Time makes a difference! If we ever have conditions after wheat harvest where we don’t think planting double crop soybeans would work, we can always seed a cover crop to benefit the following crop season.
How was your week? What did you think of our week?
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Looks like Scott Farms had a good harvest season! State of the Art, especially if you remember our field equipment during your Hawaii visit!!
Hey, those cover crop radishes are what we make Japanese pickles with in Hawaii. We call them daikon. Need a recipe 🙂 ?
Very good harvest. Just wrapped it up today, and now we have some snow.