Fertilizing corn is one of the largest expenses on our farm, and Nitrogen (N) is the biggest contributor to that cost. Over that last few seasons we have changed our N program quite a bit with goals of improving corn yield, more effective application timing, and reducing costs. In recent years we have stepped away […]
It’s almost time. This looks to be the last week we have on the farm ahead of the 2014 planting season. We are scrambling to get a lot of things done before we hit the fields full-time. We’ve been tuning up the new field we bought, fertilizing, and doing various jobs that need our attention […]
This edition of Farm Week in Pictures takes us into June already! Planting has been done for over a week now so we are tending to the growing crop. We sold and delivered some of last year’s crop this week and spent some time between rains fertilizing corn. The weekend was a wet one so […]
This week we are still working on that drain tile installation. We decided to expand that project a little bit. It’s going to cost more, but we think it will be worth the effort to go ahead and cover a few more acres. If that gets us a few more bushels per acre the tile […]