With harvest out of the way, we are busy working in the fields getting them harrowed, and using our rock hook to dig any large rocks out of the ground. We also are working on servicing up the harvest equipment, washing off, and doing any servicing like oil changes so we can put them away […]
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The 2021 harvest is now complete! Every season has its ups and downs – even though yields were off significantly compared or average, still managed to have an enjoyable harvest and experiment with new techniques. Started in late July and then had some rain delays (which were welcome!) and finished up in mid-September — key
We finally had a major thunderstorm move through the whole farm last week. It dropped between 30-90mm across our land base. This is a major positive event for us as it has had a good recharge of our soil moisture. In fact, two of the three weather stations show a full recharge of the soil
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The good news is we did finally get some significant moisture totals on our north land (south land received less), but it did come with a major hail storm. We ended up with between 40-60mm last week up north and 20-25mm down south – this is welcome and appreciated, even though it is the middle
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Harvest was slow this past week with periodic showers slowing down progress. We didn’t get any large amounts of rain – seems like we are still dealing with shortfalls from what is forecasted – we ended up with around 8-10mm through all the showers that we had last week. The good news is the barley
Barley & Oats are Complete Read More »
