After a rather rainy September, things have dried off enough in the last two weeks to allow the green flag to drop on Harvest ’25. Neighbors were finally able to get rolling on silage harvest to fill bunker silos at feedlots around our territory. Warm, breezy weather allowed soybeans to finally dry down, and with a major drop of leaves the combines were speeding through the fields.
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Barb Bierman Batie grew up near Battle Creek, Nebraska, and now farms row crops with her Platte Valley Farmer, Don Batie, northeast of Lexington. She has written for local, state, regional and international publications. She joined the Midwest Messenger crew in 2010. She can be reached at barb.batie@gmail.com.
