Supposedly the third week of April is the best time to plant corn here in Northern Indiana, but sometimes conditions aren’t fit for planting or doing any kind of field work that week. In 2012 we started crazy early on March 28th, but it had been 80ºF for two weeks by that time. Conditions were […]
It was a wet week for this Farm Week in Pictures! We had rain almost every day ending with a big storm Thursday that dropped water on saturated soils. We have no crops in the ground yet so no damage done there. We will however be waiting until everything dries out before we can start […]
My parents have an exceptional soybean plant near their house. This plant is actually on the edge of a neighbor’s corn field and has managed to survive the growing season. Dad counted the pods on this plant estimating an entire field of soybeans like this one could yield 250 bushels per acre. In our area […]
What is double crop? This is when a farm harvest two cash crops from the same piece of land in one season. We grow a field or two of wheat every year, and we always like to double crop soybeans right after the wheat is harvested. See the evenly spaced diagonal lines running across the […]
Haven’t really posted much for you to read lately, but that’s because we’ve been in the field planting! I’ve been tweeting quite a bit from the tractor, but I can’t read or write much for an extended period without getting motion sick. And when you get home most nights after dark, working on a blog post is […]
Planting into the night How did this miss us? Sunset Little guy fell asleep in the tractor, just like I used to. Watching Daddy plant Visiting the field and bringing Dad supper. Don’t worry, that tractor isn’t running. One neighbor with a 32 row planter. Ours is 16 Another neighbor with his 4 row. Takes […]