Most of the pictures this week are from wheat harvest. If you want to see our harvest in action then look here. Another farmer’s field behind my house being sprayed. Little soybeans breaking through the wheat stubble Delivering wheat to the elevator Wheat piled up in the combine hopper Harvesting wheat next to the popcorn […]
Tag: soybeans
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 […]
I’ve been taking pictures every Monday of a field of soybeans and a field of popcorn right near our shop. I started taking pictures at emergence and will continue to do so through harvest for a future blog post. I plan on having a slide show of each crop’s progress on a weekly basis so […]
This is what happens to soybeans when it rains frequently, and it’s too wet for sprayers to get into fields. Hope we dry out soon. Posted from WordPress for Android
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 […]
I had a great idea come to me today while planting popcorn. I’ll pick a field of soybeans and a field of corn at the “home” farm since I’ll see those fields nearly every day. Once the seeds germinate I’ll take a picture in the same spot every week through harvest and then post all […]