Glory to God! The small grains harvest has officially begun today on this farm! Started swathing oats this afternoon and got an eighteen acre field down and just got in a few minutes ago. And when I got in there was a delicious chicken and dumpling supper waiting. Of coarse I had to [...]
Well, its Sunday evening and all is going pretty good around here today. A beautiful day once again and the week looks like a good one coming up! Get started on second crop hay in earnest and knock down the oats later in the week. There’ll be allot of work the next couple [...]
Its cloudy and really humid outside today, we received 3/10s of an inch of rain this morning and that put the stop to any thoughts of hay making today. No big deal, there’s always another day. Besides I was a tad bit tired out from church last evening and got me a nice farmer’s [...]
These last couple of days have been the most picture perfect days that I have seen in many a year. Just all out perfection. Sunny, very little wind, and only about 80 degrees with cool nights for sleeping. It don’t get much better than that. There’s some concern by big ag radio that [...]
I’m going to try and get back in the saddle here, been hectic around here lately with a few more days of it coming and then it should settle down to just plain old farming and just generally enjoying life. Yesterday we had us the surprise of a lifetime, or at least the [...]
Things are out of the ordinary around here this week. We had us some July rains, first time in three years! I’m so very thankful, the corn is bursting in growth, the pastures should start regaining in a short time and things are just generally different than the past few years. Maybe, just [...]
So far so good this week except for a tad bit of a lack of moister around here. Getting back to the dry side but its not as bad as last year at this point yet. Spent the first two days this week cultivating corn and the last couple cutting deep meadow hay which is [...]