Being efficient is important during harvest for many reasons. When conditions are right you want to get crops harvested in a timely manner while those conditions are still in effect. Maximizing productivity can also cut fuel costs and puts less hours on machinery which preserves value when it’s time to sell or trade equipment. One […]
Harvest began this week! And that’s pretty much what we’ve been up to! In a post earlier this week I talked about what kind of yields we’ve seen so far as a result of the drought. Different soil types have different capacities for yield, but this year the changes from one part of a field […]
Went to a farm auction today. Came home with more stuff than we went in with. Needs some TLC, and I’ll keep you all posted as we make progress.
We recently completed wheat harvest on our farm using two John Deere combines. After 20 years of sitting in a barn after purchase, we were able to get our John Deere model 45 combine up and running so it could participate in the action. I thought having a machine from the 1950s out in the […]
This is a short week after taking Memorial Day off. I spent most of the week hauling corn, both dent and waxy, that we have sold recently. We’ve also had some good progress on getting the old model 45 combine cleaned up and tuned up in hopes of cutting some wheat with it soon. Enjoy […]
It’s still warm and sunny with nothing but a 30% chance of rain late next week so we have been planting since late last week. That’s early. Really early. So early that we are going to finish all the corn acres by the end of the day today. Take a look at what we’ve been […]