Loading soybeans instead of corn this week It’s called a dust mask for a reason Be careful, Dad! Done with the nitrogen applicator for the year Oil change time Some of our earliest corn looking good Water should be flowing from the field into the side ditch. We’re trying to help it along. Posted from […]
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On our farm we grow corn, soybeans, popcorn, and wheat. More specifically #2 yellow dent corn, waxy corn, commercial soybeans, soybeans for seed (for two different seed companies), popcorn, and wheat. Let’s start with the regular dent corn. You’ll notice I didn’t say sweet corn. None of the corn we grow (except popcorn) ends up […]
Planting into the night How did this miss us? Sunset Little guy fell asleep in the tractor, just like I used to. Watching Daddy plant Visiting the field and bringing Dad supper. Don’t worry, that tractor isn’t running. One neighbor with a 32 row planter. Ours is 16 Another neighbor with his 4 row. Takes […]
Filling up the planter for the first time this year! And we’re off! Planting season has begun! Tractor and planter calling it a day Some conservation going on here. This is a filter strip along a ditchbank. Dad taking counts and measurements of seed spacing and depth Setting up varieties going to be planted. First […]
More of this to come The welding bench is also a drawing board. Electrical work in this case Going over our bulk seed wagon that fills the planter If you’ve been following you know I’ve been detailing semis all week. Sparkly! Randy repairing an auger Posted from WordPress for Android
I get out my Droid and catch up on any emails, retweets, etc I may have missed. Then I scan twitter for any interesting stuff I can comment on, read, or retweet. Then it’s time for a few rounds of Wordfued with my friends and while I wait on then to play I check out […]