We probably couldn't have asked for better planting or harvest weather than we got this year. The problem was between those times. Things got …
We're just finishing up with the one problem field we had and we're doing all the miscellaneous stuff you need to do before winter. We're clea…
We drilled rye last week and have been working to get machinery cleaned and put away. We are still stymied on the 16-acre corner of a field of…
We tried something different. We had maybe an acre of downed corn we couldn't pick up easily, so we got out the old 560 Farmall with a picker …
We're on the home stretch of harvest. I have one small plot where I had a creek crossing wash out and I need to get that repaired to get acces…
We are getting cows off the pasture today (Oct. 26). I would have liked to have kept them on it another week or so. The harvest is slow going.…
We got the beans wrapped up and are working on the corn. Yields are getting incrementally better as we go, but they range from average down to…
We’ve only got a couple days left of bean harvest and it’ll be all wrapped up. Everything has been going OK mechanically, but yields have been…
I'm a little embarrassed to say that at the start of this week we hadn't really done any beans yet. We had some other issues last week. I am h…
We had 0.4 inches of rain Sunday and I'm OK with that. The timing was good because we just seeded some cover crops Saturday. We haven't gotten…
We're wrapping up the last cutting of hay and getting cover crops on our small grains and sweet corn fields. There is a trickle of harvesting …
We had over 4 inches of rain last week. I spent most of the week catching up on my office work. We did get a cover crop seeded on some sweet c…
One of my projects this week is to fetch about 25 straw bales that are all over the place. I baled them right before the derecho and the wind …
Crops around here that were damaged by the derecho are starting to get destroyed. You can see some drought issues with the crop. The corn is t…
We are still cleaning up after the storm a couple weeks ago. We haven’t talked to our crop adjuster yet, so not sure where that is going. We h…
We are out picking sweet corn almost off the ground. We spent the last week cutting trees out of buildings and babysitting generators after th…
We had a trace of rain late last week, but not much. The pastures could really use a drink. We're still picking sweet corn and it has been exc…
We're loving the nice weather. Last week we finished combining oats and baling the straw. Overall, our small grain harvest was good. The oats …
Sweet corn has been the focus for us this past week. We are busy with that every day. Sales have been really good so far. We could use some mo…
The big highlight for us is that the sweet corn is ready. That will be our life for the next month or so. We sold some over the weekend and we…
We started harvesting rye last week and baled a little rye straw. That's probably going to be the big thing this week. The alfalfa is starting…
I think the heat is kind of the headline. On the Fourth of July we harvested wheat. We got all of that combined and we had some relay crop soy…
We will probably harvest some wheat this week. There is also good re-growth on the alfalfa after the first cutting. I also hope to get some sp…
We have had about five inches of rain in the past week. They tended to be spotty, so totals vary quite a bit. We did get done with the first c…
We are butchering a couple of pigs this morning. That is a new experience for us. The last three weeks have been spent baling hay. We've been …
We got the corn sprayed and hopefully we'll get the first crop of hay done today (June 8). I would say the alfalfa hay is really good and the …
I am just hooking up the hay mower. I think this will be a week for making hay in our area. The pastures look good. Our sweet corn is up and s…