Warning! This post contains gratuitous cornography including graphic imagery of corn reproductive organs. Male and female parts will be pictured and discussed in detail. It’s July so that means all our corn has finished the vegetative stages of life and has now entered the reproductive phase. I figure this is a good time to give […]
Farm Week in Pictures is a bit different this week because I didn’t spend most of the week on the farm. For my wife’s birthday we traveled South to Tennessee over the Fourth of July weekend, but there was plenty of farm work to be done before I left and while I was gone! Get […]
You thought planting was done? Well it is, but we may be seen swooping in a field or two for replant. What is Replant? Around here replant is usually the result of crops being drowned out by heavy rainfall that accumulates in low lying areas of a field. Replanting is not an uncommon task, but […]
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 […]
Dad and I spent some time this morning working up our yearly chart that will come along for the ride in the planter tractor. This chart is a baseline for certain settings on the planter than need to be changed in relation to seed size. Sizing corn and soybean seed is an important step in […]
Lots more happening on the farm this week. Take a look! New Iron Our 475 riding mower mows the yards of three houses and all the roadsides between them has 775 hours on the engine. It’s still a great mower and has no problems, but this brand new 730 that was delivered this week is […]