This Farm Week in Pictures brings you a week full of planting! We are nearly done. Corn finished up early in the week and we spent about two days on popcorn. We are working on soybeans now, and they should be done in a few days if we don’t see rain. Tomorrow we start with […]
After than long, wet April Farm Week in Pictures finally brings you planting shots! Monday through Thursday we planted corn. Of course Plant 13 keeps us pretty busy, but it came to a standstill right at 5pm on Thursday with a brief rain shower. Friday was a dreary day, so soil didn’t dry out. The […]
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 […]
We’re already a week into April! Last year that meant we’d been planting corn for a week. Luckily things are somewhat normal this spring despite a cold March. We haven’t even looked at the planter yet, let alone hook a tractor to it. We’re pushing 70 this weekend and rain is in the forecast, and […]
According to my Purdue Extension Corn & Soybean Field Guide 2010 Edition the optimum time to plant corn in my area is the last week of April. The last week of April begins in three days, and seeing as the ground is soaked right now and there’s more rain on the way what can a […]
First things first. I’ll give you a video walkthrough of the essential parts of the planter. Now if you haven’t been around a planter like this before you’re probably wondering how this looks in the field. The picture below shows the results of all the ground engaging parts. You can see the slot made by […]