Hi. It’s me. I’m back. I haven’t posted in almost a month. We’ve been super busy doing things away from home all the time and we finished August with a trip to the Domican Republic and before we came home we were in Chicago for four more days because my best friend was getting married. […]
Tag: harvest
Most of the pictures this week are from wheat harvest. If you want to see our harvest in action then look here. Another farmer’s field behind my house being sprayed. Little soybeans breaking through the wheat stubble Delivering wheat to the elevator Wheat piled up in the combine hopper Harvesting wheat next to the popcorn […]
What is double crop? This is when a farm harvest two cash crops from the same piece of land in one season. We grow a field or two of wheat every year, and we always like to double crop soybeans right after the wheat is harvested. See the evenly spaced diagonal lines running across the […]
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 […]
I had a great idea come to me today while planting popcorn. I’ll pick a field of soybeans and a field of corn at the “home” farm since I’ll see those fields nearly every day. Once the seeds germinate I’ll take a picture in the same spot every week through harvest and then post all […]