Farm Week in Pictures is changing tunes again. Harvest all but ended on Monday, and we’ve gone from a single focus of harvesting to all kinds of projects happening this week. Take a look! Corn Conclusion Getting ready to start one of the final days of corn harvest. All we have left to cut is […]
Those who keep up with this blog and the associated facebook and twitter accounts know we bought our first draper head for soybean and wheat harvesting. So why did we decide to trade our conventional cutting platform, which also flexed, for a John Deere 635FD? I think it may help readers to know what is […]
This week you’re actually getting two weeks of farm pics. You might not know that if I hadn’t mentioned it, but I know some of you really like to keep up with us through Farm Week in Pictures! We worked on corn part of last week, and then we switched to soybeans. Rain kept us […]
It’s been another busy week all about harvest on the farm. After a few hours of waxy corn harvest we started into popcorn and have been working on it all week long. River View So this is probably one of the best pictures I’ve taken in a while. This was taken while standing on the […]
The farm is in full harvest mode. Not much else is going on except for harvest. I spend most of my time doing all things combine related. Dad keeps the corn dryer running and transfers corn between bins and checks fields and grain to see if we need to tweak any combine settings. Grandpa and […]
I’m soaked through to my unmentionables. The grain dryer was nearing capacity and we were about to move on to another field. When we left for lunch to let the dryer catch up a bit the grain cart was fully loaded (and untarped) and the combine was partially loaded. I drove home and made a […]