Monthly Archives: June 2014

Checking it out

Posted on June 29, 2014 by casifarm

Sunday, June 29, 2014 After a terrific morning at Wheatland Christian Church, we had some leftover spaghetti-bake for lunch (or in southern Indiana AKA Sunday dinner).  Nicolas and I took an extended Gator ride around and across all the double-crop soybeans … Continue reading →

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A little pause

Posted on June 27, 2014 by casifarm

Friday, June 27, 2014 As the day wraps up, we have reached a good point.  John has the spraying ‘caught up” in the soybeans.  We have done almost all the riparian spraying from the seat of the Gator.  We have … Continue reading →

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Clean-up continues

Posted on June 25, 2014 by casifarm

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 The post-harvest clean-up continues.  Nicolas is out on the Gator spraying riparian areas with Select herbicide. This will stop the johnsongrass, but permit the fescue to thrive.  John is busy today, applying the first herbicide pass of Roundup+Warrant to … Continue reading →

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The clean-up has begun

Posted on June 24, 2014 by casifarm

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 After harvest and DCB planting finished up yesterday, the clean-up of the equipment must take place.  There are days worth of work involved.  We started today with the air drill.  It gets stored at the Huey … Continue reading →

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Done!

Posted on June 23, 2014 by casifarm

Monday, June 23, 2014 Today was a big day.  Ross and Brandon finished harvesting the wheat crop…at about 3pm.  It certainly looked like it would rain them out of the last field, but the rain went around and they were … Continue reading →

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What is a planting prescription?

Posted on June 22, 2014 by casifarm

Since we’re planting double-crop soybeans (DCB), I thought I’d offer this previous post about planting by prescription

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Rain out

Posted on June 20, 2014 by casifarm

Friday, June 20, 2014 We were making progress today, with the combines and with the planting of double-crop soybeans (DCB).  But at 3pm, the dark sky opened up the floodgates and in just a few minutes we received .4″ (10mm) … Continue reading →

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Wheat harvest starts.

Posted on June 19, 2014 by casifarm

Thursday, June 19, 2014 Wheat harvest began today! The new combines went to the Dunn farm about 10 am.  We each discovered some glitches… Ross an oil leak and me a sensor on the steering that was installed out of … Continue reading →

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Replanting soybeans

Posted on June 18, 2014 by casifarm

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 We inspected wheat fields late this morning, and decided to give harvest a try come tomorrow morning, about 10 am. In the meantime, we checked out the Huey farm, Flat Left field… and discovered some dead … Continue reading →

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Continuing preparation…on a hot day

Posted on June 17, 2014 by casifarm

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 Pre-harvest preparations continue today.  The elevators have been greased.  It took a trip to the top of each.  Brandon is scraping the hopper bottom of bin 5, which is our wet-grain holding bin that serves the … Continue reading →

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