This wall was full of seed boxes and pallets. Now we just have a few empty boxes left! Cleaned the fertlizer plumbing on the planter. The hose we use to fill the planter must have had a mouse in it over the winter, as the first strainer on the planter was packed with this stuff. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]