Filling up the planter for the first time this year! And we’re off! Planting season has begun! Tractor and planter calling it a day Some conservation going on here. This is a filter strip along a ditchbank. Dad taking counts and measurements of seed spacing and depth Setting up varieties going to be planted. First […]
We have been planting for one day and are officially ahead of schedule! How can this be with all the rain and cold temperatures we’ve been having? It depends on what year you are comparing this spring to. I started farming full time exactly two years ago today, and on that day we had 80 […]
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I’m not a big fan of the term conventional agriculture. As a farmer, I know what it means, and I know it references the way I farm. My concern with the term is how it might be interpreted by those who don’t have first hand experience with farming. In my mind the uneducated and inexperienced view […]
It was a long, wet week until today. The forecast is much improved now compared to the last two weeks. We haven’t planted anything, and I’m actually glad we didn’t when we could have. I’d be worried about poor stands. Some neighboring fields have been planted for three weeks and nothing has come up yet. […]
This farmer’s knife anyway. My handyman brother-in-law visited from Arizona and took notice of how dull my knife was. I thought about that for a second and realized the reason the blade isn’t usually sharp is because it’s not really a knife. Sure looks like a knife, but it’s not. When we get out in […]