Well, it was a year of good and bad. Crops looked very good. At the beginning of August, it looked like the best I ever had. But then rust and sudden death showed up. Corn averaged 160-180 bu./acres, but with fungicide reached 200-plus for yield. Beans were 55-65 bu./acre. Not my best, but d…
Jason Boyer and his wife Amy farm near Weldon in Clarke County. They have a 130-head Limousin seedstock operation and grow corn, beans and hay on the farm. Their three children are also involved in the operation. The family owns Harvest Barn Marketplace, where they sell a variety of products…
With rains this past week no progress was made on beans. Looks like a good week ahead. Most of the crop is harvested in the area.
We did our corn first and working on beans now. Yields seem to be good so far. Got through our busyness at the Harvest Barn. Couple days of good running and we should wrap it up. Need to roll some corn stalks up, too.
Worked on corn some this week. Some corn was below 11% moisture. We should finish corn in the next day or two. Yields were good — we can sure see where fungicide was applied and where it wasn’t. It finally felt like fall, and it was a busy weekend at the Harvest Barn with pumpkins and people.
Had 1.5 inches of rain, so we took a break from harvest and were able to get some repairs done. We ran our bull calves through the shoot to pull DNA, tattoo and get weights to see how they are progressing. The heaviest one tipped the scales at 985 pounds.
Busy week with lots of crops coming off. Started on some corn that we didn’t get fungicide on. Yields were still good for this area — 180 bu./acre, moisture at 15%. Glad to see some rain for beans and to settle the dust some.
We got some cover crop in this past week where we chopped corn. Combines are going in corn and starting on beans. We are going to start on a piece of corn today that storms were hard on. Looks like a warm, dry week ahead to harvest.
Guys are just starting on corn. With the storms last week and the rust in the corn, we're starting to see some poor stalk quality. We're going to have to harvest quicker and not wait for the moisture to go down so much as we have been able to do in the past. Some beans have been picked north…
Summer returned again this weekend. Crops are changing fast. Saw several fields of corn and beans harvested in the area. We are working on our combine. We finished up hay making for the season.
We had 0.7 inches of rain to help settle dust last week. Chopped corn silage. Filled a 300-ton bag on about 9-10 acres. Probably best corn silage done for me. Beans are turning. Working on combine to get it ready. Opened Harvest Barn Fun Farm and store for the season. Beautiful weather for f…
Liking the fall weather but could use a little rain to settle some dusty roads and feedlot pens. Planning on chopping some corn today (Aug. 29). There was a lot of second- and third-cutting hay made last week. Corn is changing fast, and some chopping is going on around here.
It was our first week without any rain for a while. The rust and sudden death are showing up more, and the heat has the crop looking more like fall. The temps are very nice and could stay this way for a while for me. We’re planning on chopping corn silage later this week. We’ve been busy get…
We had another inch of rain last week in our area. We finally got our third cutting of hay baled after it got rained on several times, and we could not believe that it out-yielded the first and second cuttings. That doesn't happen to us in August. It's just been a crazy year. We still have m…
Well, it was a wet week with 4.5 inches of rain. We mowed a very nice third cutting of hay, but it got washed. Hopefully we get it baled this week. Crops look good. Hopefully we can get it to harvest safe and sound. It will be a later harvest than the last several years. Lots of grass for co…
We had 1.2 inches of rain this week. We made lots of headway on rebuilding lot fencing. A lot of hay was mowed. We are working our last group of pairs this morning. We will have all spring calves weaned, too. I hope to get started doing my third cutting today (Monday, Aug. 4).
We received 1.25 inches of rain over several events. We had a hot week to work on pouring some concrete for some fenceline feed bunks. This week we are building some pipe fencing and starting to work cows and calves to get ready to wean. Crops are really looking good so far. Have the third c…
We had a wet weekend, with anywhere from 3.25 to 6 inches over where we farm. We got our second cutting of alfalfa up but there's a lot still to go around here. We will have third cutting ready soon and probably yield more than the second cutting. Pastures look really good. We're getting rea…
Crop looks pretty good. We had 1.75 inches of rain last week, and some places had 3 to 4 inches. We should finish second cutting of alfalfa this afternoon (Monday). Soybeans look very good. All the corn has tasseled. We're sitting as good moisture-wise as we have in a while. Third cutting of…
We had 0.75 inches of rain over a few events last week. We did get some second-cutting hay up and are waiting on a window to get some more done. Second pass of spraying on beans is done. Corn is tasseling and growing fast with the heat and rain. Thirty-inch bean rows are nearly canopied.
We’ve had 4.2 inches so far this week but it’s storming now (June 26) and probably will get some more yet tonight. Crops sure look like they liked the good soaking rain. We finished first-cutting hay just ahead of storms. Second-cutting alfalfa is needing to be done. Second pass on beans nee…
Crop looks good. We had 1.25 inches of rain last week and it was much-needed. It sounds like there’s a chance of rain pretty much the rest of the week. We are hoping to wrap up our first cutting of hay today (Monday). The corn is over my head in the best parts of the fields. We are ready for…
Things are still looking pretty good. We had a dry week, so we put up a lot of hay. The quality was good but the quantity was a little less than a year ago. The corn is chest-high in some spots. Beans look good. We will be back out in the hay field today (Monday). We have about 40 acres yet to go.
Crops are doing well. We probably had an inch of rain last week, and that helped out. The early-planted corn is waist-high and the late-planted corn is knee-high. Hopefully we keep getting some moisture to keep pushing along the crop. We worked on hay. Hopefully we can knock another round do…
We got some of our first-cutting hay down. The quantity is shorter than it was last year. We really haven’t had much in the way of rain for the last two weeks. Hopefully we get some tonight (Monday) or tomorrow. The crop looks pretty good. We have some equipment we need to pull in and work o…
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