Monthly Archives: October 2017

Another end of the month

Posted on October 31, 2017 by casifarm

Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Here’s a memory of October 31st.  On this date in 1994, we received a 4″ snow.  I can recall that, because on the previous night, as we were harvesting corn at Huey, we had a small combine … Continue reading →

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Busy day

Posted on October 27, 2017 by casifarm

Friday, October 27, 2017 Rain is coming today, but yesterday was a good, sunny day…even if it only got up to 65ºF (18C).  It was a busy day at Carnahan & Sons:  Lime and fertilizer going down.  Shop work.  And a … Continue reading →

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‘nother meeting

Posted on October 26, 2017 by casifarm

Thursday, October 26, 2017 This afternoon will be another lengthy meeting.  (we’ve had a lot of those lately!)  We will be sitting down around the conference table with our seed dealer and the Monsanto regional rep to iron out our … Continue reading →

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Next steps

Posted on October 24, 2017 by casifarm

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 Last Friday, we met with our fertility consultant, Greg Anthis of CPS Wheatland, to go over the fall’s soil tests, and to map out a strategy for the 2018 fertilizer program.  We settled on plans for … Continue reading →

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Special visit

Posted on October 20, 2017 by casifarm

  On Thursday, October 12, we had three special visitors (four, really, with Tracey’s daughter) here at the farm.  Representatives of Climate Corporation arrived here to discuss their Fieldview information system and our experience with it.  They were accompanied by Chad … Continue reading →

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Clean up continues…

Posted on October 19, 2017 by casifarm

Thursday, October 19, 2017 What a glorious, beautiful October day!   78F and sunny!   The two draper headers, a MacDon FD75 and a JD 640FD will be hitting the wash pad soon.  Most everything else has already been shined up.  … Continue reading →

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Soil Judging

Posted on October 19, 2017 by casifarm

On Saturday, October 14th, over 350 high school students from all across Indiana gathered here at Carnahan & Sons for the Indiana State Soil Judging Contest.  The team competition brought two waves of busloads of kids to evaluate soils.  In … Continue reading →

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2018 crop wheat

Posted on October 18, 2017 by casifarm

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 The fields that we planted to wheat are all up and growing now.  Sure looks nice as it turns a soft green.  We started planting wheat on September 25, and finished on October 2.  Even though … Continue reading →

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Done!

Posted on October 17, 2017 by casifarm

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Yes, harvest at Carnahan & Sons is done!  We pulled through the last replanted corn at Huey on Saturday evening.  We worked our way through this crop in 5 weeks, a relatively short time, but not a record.  … Continue reading →

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Big rain

Posted on October 10, 2017 by casifarm

Tuesday, October 10, 2017 1.56″ (40mm). Yes, it was a rainy morning, but the sun is back out in the late afternoon.  Not sure just how soon the corn fields will support the combines to re-start the harvest. But the … Continue reading →

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