Crops are growing bigger by the day on the farm. Everything has been planted for a few weeks now, and all the corn and popcorn has been fertilized. So what are we up to now? Take a look! Moving Corn to Market We delivered several loads of the 2013 corn crop. Right now we have […]
I’ve been busy going from farm to farm all week feeding our growing corn crop. The rest of the crew have been helping me out shuttling around wagons and leaving my truck somewhere close so I can get to lunch and home in the evening. Enjoy the photos! Hungry Corn This is a fun shot […]
Farm work shifted gears this week. Planting season wrapped up at 10:00 PM Tuesday night so we are moving on to the next phase of summer jobs and scouting our growing crop. Mission Complete Getting ready to shut down right after the last seeds of #Plant14 are in the ground. Busy season traffic. Planters passing […]
Readers, you’re actually getting two weeks worth of farm pictures this time because I didn’t do a post last week. Lucky you! Week one was all about planting with a Friday rain delay. On Saturday afternoon we were back to planting until just after sundown in order to finish a soybean field. That leaves us with […]
A bit of a slow start early this farm week due to wet soils, but by Wednesday we were back to planting again. Take a look! Family Farming Great shot my wife got of our son and me after he spent a whole afternoon (until 9pm) planting popcorn with me. Planting that popcorn! Seed Swap! […]
Supposedly the third week of April is the best time to plant corn here in Northern Indiana, but sometimes conditions aren’t fit for planting or doing any kind of field work that week. In 2012 we started crazy early on March 28th, but it had been 80ºF for two weeks by that time. Conditions were […]