One ear of corn. It doesn’t seem like it holds much value. But even though I’m a corn farmer growing around 850 acres of corn, there is a lot of worth in one ear of corn. Let’s do some math. We plant on average 32,000 seeds per acre taking the whole farm in account. 32,000 […]
Whoa! A whole month of 2015 is already gone. Even though it’s winter the farm is still pretty active. Last week saw a lot of grain hauling. We hauled a little more this week, but we also worked on a few other projects. Check out this week’s photos as we close out the first month […]
It finally happened. We had a full week of dry enough soil and good weather to put in a full week of harvest. There are quite a few less acres on our farm to harvest now. We are now around two-thirds done with harvest. Popcorn When we harvest popcorn all three trucks are usually loaded […]
This is pretty much a soybean exclusive Farm Week in Pictures. The majority of our time this week was devoted to hauling a bin full of soybeans 21 miles away to Remington Seeds who we’ve been raising seed beans with for a few years now. We are growing seed for two companies now, and in […]