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Summer 2020
A year like no other to be sure! While COVID has effected grain markets in agriculture, thankfully it has not had much impact on the daily operations of the farm. The weather however, has not missed the opportunity to throw a crazy year at us! A nice dry start let us get all of our…
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Ready for spring
Spring is officially here according to the calendar and the weather has finally given the first glimmers of it as well. We were very thankful for the extra room in the shop this year so we could efficiently keep rolling on equipment maintenance and repairs right through the brutal winter. Jared has keep the truck…
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Summer Update
Summer is flying by, and I wanted to give a quick update before fall. Recent heat and dryness has likely taken the top edge off of what looked like a fantastic crop. I’m optimistic that most fields will still be above average. With some rain this week and next, beans could be very good yet.…
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Spring Update
Despite a cool and snowy start to spring, it turned out that we had a fantastic planting season and crops are off to a great start. First, we found a small window on April 13th to try planting some early beans. The forecast looked cold and we wouldn’t have dreamt of planting corn but with…
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Winter Activities
Just a quick update here with what has been going on this winter on the farm! We have been making some updates to the planter again this year. We put on a liquid insecticide system to apply generic insecticide and reduce the cost of our corn seed. Due to low rootworm pressure recently, the insecticide…
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Harvest 17
Harvest has been going quite well and it is high time I posted an update. We had a great stretch of dry weather to get all of our beans harvested before recent rains set in. The ground is dry enough to soak up this 1.5-2″ and let us back in the fields tomorrow. Although both…
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Summer update
Just a quick update on what has been happening so far this summer. Things dried out nicely after my last post and we were able to get the corn sprayed and the last pass of nitrogen applied with Y-Drops. We missed a few forecasted rains and things started to look pretty parched. Then we quickly…
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Spring Planting
What a spring it has been! The heavy rain that fell at the beginning of April when I last posted was certainly not the last we have seen. We were able to start planting corn in a timely fashion on April 13th as the first fields dried out. All of the corn planting and corn…
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Winter Activities and Spring Prep
I am amazed how the winter flew by, and we are already on the verge of spring field work! It is high-time for me to post an update on what has been happening this winter! So below is a list of what has been going on/excuses of why I didn’t post sooner, in chronological order:…