This past week has been nothing but dry, drier and more dry. Soybeans were actually becoming too dry, believe it our not. This is an example of what we were dealing with while combining our 2011 soybean crop. With winds up to 40 mph and 80+ degree temperatures, there was nothing we could do but […]

READ MORE

I attended a local tillage field day to learn more about strip tillage and auto-steer components, but all I got to see was this… It wasn’t really a field day, honestly. It was more like an equipment dealer trying to sell Kraus implements and New Holland tractors. Sometimes I wonder when people are going to […]

READ MORE

It has been go, go, go since September 29, when we started our 2011 harvest off with harvesting some drier corn. Temperatures warmed up and winds have come through to dry all of the soybeans in the field. Farmers can’t get them out fast enough so that they won’t be over dry. Fourteen percent moisture […]

READ MORE

I’m sitting here on top of a bin, realizing that we have been farming now for a year! How time has flown and I can’t even begin to start on all that I’ve learned in this past year. I am excited to see what the fields look like as we harvest them and our yields. […]

READ MORE

I’m a fan of this guy, Dr. David Kohl. I saw him speak at a young farmer’s conference last year. I also ran with him in the hotel gym unbeknownst to me that he was the speaker of the day. He’s an enthusiastic speaker and very knowledgeable of ag economics.

READ MORE

Part of my dad’s old hog business included a manure pit and some buildings for a more intensive and efficient hog production business. In the mid-1970s, he transformed his farmstead to a more industrialized look, putting up hog confinement units for farrowing and finishing hogs. The other day, a demolition crew came in and started […]

READ MORE

I always find auctions pretty fascinating and wonder why they have to say all that jibber-jabber between prices. Maybe it makes the auction more interesting…

READ MORE