Dad and I spent some time this morning working up our yearly chart that will come along for the ride in the planter tractor. This chart is a baseline for certain settings on the planter than need to be changed in relation to seed size. Sizing corn and soybean seed is an important step in […]
We’re already a week into April! Last year that meant we’d been planting corn for a week. Luckily things are somewhat normal this spring despite a cold March. We haven’t even looked at the planter yet, let alone hook a tractor to it. We’re pushing 70 this weekend and rain is in the forecast, and […]
The weather finally got back to normal a bit this week. We did some work outdoors this week, and we picked up some new equipment. I spent some time working on agnerd stuff on the laptop. This time last year we were already in the field planting corn. Well that ended in a prolonged drought […]
Winter carries on around the farm. Spring is awfully close though!
Last September we seeded our first round of cover crops on roughly 200 acres. These crops that we will never harvest are probably the most exciting thing on the farm right now for me. What is a Cover Crop A cover crop does just what it says. It covers the soil during the period between […]
Another busy week!