More rain please!
Since my last posting, we have only received 1/10th of an inch of rain in our part of Iowa. That is 1/10th of an inch in an entire month! I’ve been too depressed to write about anything else…. The upside to the lack of rain is that commodity prices have been making records. This week, […]
Please rain…
…and keep raining for like a week! The rain keeps passing us by. Our late planted crops and soils need the moisture as the strong dry winds continue to dry out the topsoil. So rain gods….I’m begging you!
The little seeds who couldn’t
So it is one of the major decisions farmers need to make, the difficult decision to replant. Due to the hardness of the topsoil after the heavy rains, a crust developed over much of the field that was discussed in the previous post. In addition, the seeds planted in areas with little tile mixed with […]
There once was a little corn plant who could
We planted one of our largest fields of corn a few weeks ago, trying to get it in before the rain started. Little did we know that it was going to rain every other day for 2 weeks with some very heavy rain and hail at times. So we were concerned about the emergence of […]
The old black walnut tree
We had a half alive black walnut tree that has been on the farmstead probably since its inception in the early 1900s. It still produced walnuts, but it’s bark was starting to fall off and each year, less green leaves would develop. We think it was at its end plus it was very close to […]
It’s time!
After a 2 week weather delay, we are finally looking at a stretch of dry weather to complete the planting of our corn. Then onto soybeans! Here I am trying to plant in a straight line. We do not use auto steer or a GPS unit to guide the tractor, but it’s probably better that […]