This is like a back to school “What did you do this summer?” type of post. Obviously I don’t spend 24 hours a day in the field with my crops. I thought you all might be interested in some of the things I do for fun when I’m not planting, harvesting, maintaining equipment, or hauling […]
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The Southern part of our county experienced a large hail storm two days ago. The storm caused some significant damage to crops. I went for a drive this afternoon so I figured I would drive to the affected area and snap a few pictures. Harvest is going to be difficult due to the damage not […]
About two weeks ago we learned USDA Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Michael Scuse was going to be touring the Midwest surveying the effect of drought and extreme heat across the Corn Belt. Our farm ended up as a stop on the tour because my sister, who recently starting working at our local FSA office, suggested […]
I was a my parent’s house this morning dropping my son off for the day when Dad got a call from Grandpa. He had started loading a truck with corn and loaded up two young raccoons in the process! They had found their way into the tube the grain flows out of, so when corn […]
It’s still warm and sunny with nothing but a 30% chance of rain late next week so we have been planting since late last week. That’s early. Really early. So early that we are going to finish all the corn acres by the end of the day today. Take a look at what we’ve been […]