Refuge corn? What’s that? I’ll show you! No corn doesn’t need to take refuge in some kind of crop refugee camp, but it can act as a safe haven for pests that like to eat my crops. Why would I want pests to eat my crops? What is Refuge? Refuge plants are needed to mitigate […]
While we edge closer to harvest Farm Week in Pictures shows off corn entering a new stage of life, last year’s crop leaving the farm, a random meeting, and some metal work. Enjoy! Corny Stuff The corn crop is coming along nicely. Here you can see the corn has dented. Dent is the next stage […]
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 brings a close to the planting season this week. We put in a long day Sunday, and finished on Wednesday, May 22 which happens to be our wedding anniversary. With planting over outside of a replant situation and hopefully being able to double crop soybeans after wheat what is on the […]
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 […]