A grain cart is a great tool for adding efficiency to harvest. A cart keeps a combine moving while spending more time harvesting and less time driving to and from trucks waiting at the edge of a field. Combines are expensive to operate so the less hours a farmer can put on his combine the […]
Farm Week in Pictures has been on hiatus for a few weeks. Several weeks actually. After wheat harvest, I didn’t have a great deal of unique pictures to show off. We spent a lot of days hauling in the rest of the 2013 corn crop, and we spent a week at Disney World. But things […]
A bit of a slow start early this farm week due to wet soils, but by Wednesday we were back to planting again. Take a look! Family Farming Great shot my wife got of our son and me after he spent a whole afternoon (until 9pm) planting popcorn with me. Planting that popcorn! Seed Swap! […]
Farm activity this week consisted of working on tractors for a good portion of the week. The 4630 especially got some TLC. We’ve be finishing up installing the loader we bought at auction recently. I started just a little bit of prep on the big Deeres to get ready for tillage and planting. A few […]
Farm Week in Pictures is really changing now that harvest is over. Right now we have several projects happening at the same time. We are managing water on one field, tilling other fields, improving my truck, and we even bought a farm! Harvest Finale Some of the final results of our 2013 harvest. On Monday […]
We are gearing up for harvest in this week’s farm pictures. We are still maybe two weeks away from harvest, but we have a lot of prepping to do between now and then. One thing we will need before harvest is a combine and a head to cut soybeans with. You might recall we traded […]