Do you know what this is?

Have you ever seen those sections in a magazine that show some old piece of farm equipment that nobody uses anymore? Well what is that blue thing in the picture attached to that tractor? No it is not a counter weight.... We did a little cultivating of some corn on corn ground with a volunteer corn problem. Also did another 60 acres in place of second ignite  herbicide application, the cultivating was cheaper by my math even with the extended time of labor needed. I told Roger the neighbors might laugh at our little 6 row cultivator, he said the are probably just jealous and wish they had one. You can scream with this thing up to 7mph in tall corn, a far cry from the old S tine machine I spent months of my life on growing up. It is also important to have a cultivating buddy, one of mine is pictured here. Pretty brave guy perched high on the buddy seat with no shoes. When it gets really bumpy he likes to have the assurance of his hand in dads.

Baby goats....

This kid loves baby goats(pun intended), he talks about them often. We have never been goat farmers but his joy with goats could almost convince a guy to start.

Getting up the nerve.....

That pretty girl who was hauling loads last fall was working again. I tell you what, I am this close to asking her out. I didn't see a ring.... But she had gloves on so I am not sure...

Too much HP?

Is this too much horsepower for the sweetcorn patch? We pull out the big planter for this feat, usually we save it for when we are really behind on corn planting.

Choppin'

We did a little chopping of some rye, pretty good amount of material there. Our neighbor  Jon came to do the chopping and we hauled. It started off good, first load up the silo no problem, second load not so good. Plugged.... Climb to the top of silo and get it unplugged.... Start again..... Plugged..... Climb to top of silo and get it unplugged.... Start again.... Plugged! Well after trying to climb the chute the next time to unplug it and when the door dropped out from under my foot and I didn't hear it hit the ground for a few seconds so I backed out. Jon and his brother Jere saved the day and the bagger came to our place. And we filled up about 100feet. And we finished as you can see as the sun was going down. All turned out well and it will make good feed. You won't meet anybody who works harder than Jon and Jere and it was great to work with them and I learned a few things. And when I say hard workers I mean they only did chores, raked hay, raked and baled something like 200 stalk bales, chopped our 20 acres of rye, and got the bagger to our house and set up at the drop of a hat including instruction all on Monday.

High production

Pretty impressive what you can get done if you turn a 10 and 8 year old onto a job.  Lots of tomato potential this year.

Guest farmer from California.

A close friend Nate stopped by to help. Here he is loading some beans into the planter under the watchful eye of a seasoned farm hand.  Note the Bakersfield ball cap. It was great to see him and we all enjoyed the time, especially an early evening family ATV ride around the farm we took together, see ya next time Nate.