Farm Week in Pictures 5/20/11

Rockin! About to empty a bag of beans Seed treatment gives you manly pink gloves What are you looking at cow? Fill it up! Preventative maintenance A little talc helps the seed go down! No-till time! Sink hole Early corn planting results so far First corn planted almost three weeks ago, and corn planted late last […]

No News is Good News

Haven’t really posted much for you to read lately, but that’s because we’ve been in the field planting!  I’ve been tweeting quite a bit from the tractor, but I can’t read or write much for an extended period without getting motion sick.  And when you get home most nights after dark, working on a blog post is […]

Farm Week in Pictures 5/13/11

Planting into the night How did this miss us? Sunset Little guy fell asleep in the tractor, just like I used to. Watching Daddy plant Visiting the field and bringing Dad supper.  Don’t worry, that tractor isn’t running. One neighbor with a 32 row planter.  Ours is 16 Another neighbor with his 4 row.  Takes […]

Plotting Popcorn

Every year the company we grow popcorn for plants and harvests a test plot often with thousands of trials in a six acre grid.  This year they are using nine acres.  They use all kinds of hybrids for lots of different reasons, all of which are not known to me.  The equipment they use is always […]

#Agblog Idea for the Future

I had a great idea come to me today while planting popcorn.  I’ll pick a field of soybeans and a field of corn at the “home” farm since I’ll see those fields nearly every day.  Once the seeds germinate I’ll take a picture in the same spot every week through harvest and then post all […]