The first week of no weather delays, and the weather was fantastic as well. We had daily highs in the low 30’s and finally some wind to go with it. Humidity levels in the daytime ranged from 25-40% which accelerated the drying. We are now 16% complete. We harvested 240 acres of gluten free oats, […]
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Here’s a mid week update – quick blip on some of the technology we are using on the farm. Of all the technological advancements there have been in agriculture – John Deere Operations Center is right near the top. We have a “tracker” (MTG) installed in all our equipment regardless of the color. This year
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This is another chapter in the same book….We finally got the combines out and managed to get a half section (320 acres) of legacy barley harvested, and as we moved to the next field, the clouds came in and we got dumped on with rain yet again. This is the third week in a row
Harvest Starts! Then Stops Due to Yet Another Storm… Read More »
**This is as of Wednesday August 24th ** Late post Another week gone by and yet another storm! It seems like we are in a pattern that is being stubborn and just won’t change. On Monday late afternoon we moved our swathers down to the earlier seeded Legacy 6-row barley and started to swath. The
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We had a fairly major storm go through on Saturday night – nothing was in the forecast but around 6pm the storm started and hit virtually all our land. We ended up with between 24-75mm of rain, heavy wind, and some hail. The hail was concentrated to a few fields, with only one field that
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