It’s been loopy! For 16 straight days, I’ve been within the mix from early morning till 9:30-10:00 p.m. However, I can say, WE ARE DONE WITH THE HARVEST! Yields had been good. A lot better than final yr. Mix was having points with the emission management system. It’s so irritating as a result of the issues have completely nothing to do with the precise mix operation. Simply added expense and frustration!
Now we’re onto hauling manure and tillage, which I might be serving to beginning this afternoon. It’s much less aggravating than working the mix. Don’t get me unsuitable, I LOVE working the mix however there are a lot of issues occurring on the similar time.
On the finish of the day, we’re so grateful and blessed. The truth is, after we completed with harvesting, each my husband and I had been in tears thanking God.
So far as the pigs go, our barns are all full. We’re already having some well being points. Undecided precisely what’s going on however they’re on antibiotics till the illness passes.
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One can’t assist however take into consideration how we used to farm and the adjustments over time. We have now one farm, about 150 acres, positioned about 13 miles from the place we reside. We plant corn yearly. It’s a number of work to truck the corn again to the house farm. I imagine I heard 35 truckloads.
Years in the past, it might take us over every week to reap that farm. At the moment? We are able to do it in lower than 2 days. Sure, we want an additional particular person for trucking. And sure, the equipment and grain-handling methods are a lot improved. However a lot simpler now.
The opposite factor that has modified is my mother-in-law would make us ice cream bucket lunches to take to the sector. She continues to be alive, however residing in a nursing residence so can longer do this. Typically, it’s the issues we take as a right. I miss her out on the farm.
We’re so fortunate that we reside in an ag group who helps farmers. One factor they do is ship lunches to the sector. Corporations like Compeer, Profinium, Hefty Ag, Central Farm Service, and Pioneer Seeds. I can’t categorical how grateful and appreciative we’re. Listed here are just a few footage of our lunches:
Simply the weirdest factor. A hen constructed a nest on the highest ledge of our grain cart. That hen nest survived all the fall harvest. We had over 40 mph winds and it rode over 700 acres of crops within the subject and likewise down the gravel county roads.
And it survived. And I don’t understand how!
I feel we as people have to be taught from this. What do they do that may survive these circumstances? (Sorry, not the very best image.)
There’s simply a lot that goes on throughout Fall. Listed here are just a few weblog posts of mine chances are you’ll be involved in:
How Do Farm Wives Survive Fall Harvest?
Ideas and Methods For Surviving Fall Harvest When Courting a Farmer
A couple of footage from harvest.
Till subsequent time!
