Harvest is starting to near the end on this farm. Several rain delays and generally wet ground conditions have slowed us down, but we’ve got less than 10% to go. Wet Harvest We have had to return to many of our fields multiple times to get crop out due to both grain and ground moisture. […]
We kept somewhat busy during a wet week. Rain kept us away from harvest Sunday through Saturday. Our farm has been really wet. Wet Week https://storify.com/thefarmerslife/east-80-wet High water alert. Just 2″ of rain made everything wet. Our soils have been close to saturated since heavy rains came ahead of harvest back in August. As a […]
Light rains came to the farm during the week, but we weren’t kept out of the fields for long. We made some good progress on harvest, and finished Saturday night with the start of popcorn harvest. Harvest Weather Wet weather has made harvest slow, but fall always offers up some picture-worthy sights. A nice shot […]
Harvest continued this week. We harvested all the soybeans we found were ready to cut aside from the few acres we had to leave because the ground was just too wet to drive across. We got into about 40 acres of corn in two different fields before we called it quits Saturday afternoon. Grain moisture is […]