This wall was full of seed boxes and pallets. Now we just have a few empty boxes left! Cleaned the fertlizer plumbing on the planter. The hose we use to fill the planter must have had a mouse in it over the winter, as the first strainer on the planter was packed with this stuff. […]
Tag: farming
Every year the company we grow popcorn for plants and harvests a test plot often with thousands of trials in a six acre grid. This year they are using nine acres. They use all kinds of hybrids for lots of different reasons, all of which are not known to me. The equipment they use is always […]
There are so many ways for people to raise crops and livestock. Not only are the products diverse, but so are the methods of production as well as the producers themselves. Unfortunately there is often a divide between certain types of agriculture, and the different types tend to fight each other concerning what might be […]
High commodity prices have reignited the food versus fuel debate. Not that it ever really went away, but with farmers reaping high prices for several months now you can see how it’s easy for those who don’t have the right information to make the connection that high commodity prices directly lead to high food prices. […]