Back in the field!

It was dry enough to get back to corn harvest this afternoon.  The men started on Steeby's.  We had a small hiccup with a flat tire on the red truck, but hopefully, we can find someone to fix it in the morning.  Paul was able to keep up pretty well with the other truck so we could get at least a good start on that field.

Cover crops

The rains have been good for the cover crops.  The first field of rye by Paul's house looks great!  

Wet weather

We had a couple days of wet, cloudy weather. Monday night we had 0.5" of rain and then another 0.1" of light rain yesterday.  We are out of the fields for at least another day, but will wait to see how much sunshine we get today.

Long day

It was a long day of farming!  Quentin planted rye this morning while Paul hauled the grain trucks from last night to the COOP.  Around 11am they started cutting corn and finished the field at Leisure's around 7:30pm.  Whew!  There is rain on the radar making its way this way so it is nice to be finished with the whole field.

Dry enough!



The corn was dry enough to start combining down at Rose by mid-afternoon yesterday.  We were able to finish that corn today.  On to the next field tomorrow!  There is a good chance of rain beginning tomorrow night so we will see how much we can get done before that.

Wet corn

Quentin tried a test cut on the corn yesterday, and it was still a little wet.  We have had some good drying days with sun and wind so it may be ready to try again by tomorrow.  In the meantime, he is back to planting more rye cover crop on the corn ground that has been harvested.

Air seeder

Quentin has a couple fields enrolled in a cover cropping program through the NRCS.  To meet the planting deadline, the cover needed seeded before the corn was ready to harvest.  As a result, we got to watch a little airshow this morning as an airplane seeded the cover crops for us!