Tag: farm
Farms tend to accumulate scrap metal over time. A few times a year we load the dump truck with junk and haul it to the scrap yard where they recycle the metal. Today we have less junk (almost none actually) in the old hog lot, and $104 more in our pockets. Easy!
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 […]
This is a short week after taking Memorial Day off. I spent most of the week hauling corn, both dent and waxy, that we have sold recently. We’ve also had some good progress on getting the old model 45 combine cleaned up and tuned up in hopes of cutting some wheat with it soon. Enjoy […]
You may remember a while back when I wrote a post about biotech sweet corn, and how it could greatly reduce pesticide applications. Thanks to the popularity of that post (which still gets hits almost daily) I was afforded an opportunity by Monsanto to take delivery of a few freshly harvested ears of Seminis® Performance […]