Readers, you’re actually getting two weeks worth of farm pictures this time because I didn’t do a post last week. Lucky you! Week one was all about planting with a Friday rain delay. On Saturday afternoon we were back to planting until just after sundown in order to finish a soybean field. That leaves us with […]
Last week I told you there would be planting pictures from the farm this week. I was right! Planting season 2014 began on Wednesday and continued through Thursday. Rain delay all day Friday, and then back to the fields on Saturday. Sunday morning we ran a few hours to finish a field ahead of rain that […]
Are you hosting or attending an Oscar party tonight? If so maybe you’ll be partaking in the popular movie treat known as popcorn, and there’s some small chance our family farm may have raised that popcorn! Each year we dedicate somewhere between 10-15% of our acreage to popcorn production. Growing popcorn isn’t much different from […]
Activities varied this week on the farm from hauling grain to cleaning the mower to heading back to school. See what keeps us farmers busy in winter! Trucker Hat Fueling up in order to haul some more corn this week! Before corn could move I had to dig snow out of the back side […]
Corn and soybeans are obviously very different crops. Corn is tall and generally has a single ear per plant. Soybeans are relatively short and are covered in pods full of seeds we need to harvest. We have one combine, but we employ two different heads for each crop. The same head we use for beans […]
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 […]