It’s transition into harvest week on the farm! We got most of three early maturity soybean fields harvested. I say most because summer ended in a rainy fashion, and there are some areas we just can’t drive the combine right now. Another soaker came through Saturday night which will slow down our slow start a […]
We’ve been ramping up our efforts to prepare for harvest on the farm. Storage is being readied, and equipment is making its way through the shop to for final tweaks. Crops are being watched too, because we have some early maturing soybeans that could be ready fairly soon. Bin There, Done That. This is our main […]
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 […]
Farm Week in Pictures has been on hiatus for a few weeks. Several weeks actually. After wheat harvest, I didn’t have a great deal of unique pictures to show off. We spent a lot of days hauling in the rest of the 2013 corn crop, and we spent a week at Disney World. But things […]
Summer is officially on at the farm! June is coming to a close, and that means wheat harvest cannot be far off. Other jobs still keep us busy, but we’ll be spending a few days in the field soon bringing in the wheat harvest and planting soybeans right behind it. Take a look at what […]
We had a busy week on the farm. We tended to our field borders, walked popcorn for rocks, inspected the growing crop, learned about the latest tech, fixed broken things, and I finished the week by heading over to Illinois for some additional education on unmanned aerial vehicle use in agriculture. Protecting the Border Each […]