Saturday, September 18, 2021

Garrison Keillor used to say on his radio show, “It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown…”   Well, it has not been a quiet week here.  We started fall #harvest 21 on Monday.  We began with corn, because we had some September contracts to fill.  We moved our way through the Harry farm, and finished there in the late afternoon on Tuesday.  We switched the heads on the combines, and went out to cut soybeans right here at the main farm.  Because a rain was coming in late that night (you could see the flashes of lightning lighting up the sky in the west), the dew did not accumulate and we got 3 truckloads of beans cut that evening.  Rain came Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, stopping the harvest.  We returned to soybean cutting on Thursday afternoon and worked through Friday evening.  It is extremely foggy on this Saturday morning, and it will delay the start of soybean harvest today until early afternoon.  Oh, well… that’ll give us some time to deliver some soybeans to market at Newburgh, and to fix the truck that has a coolant hose leak!

Here are some pictures from the week.

Friday morning, the combines wait for the day’s action.

Tuesday evening’s soybean cutting. 

Thursday evening sunset

It will take some hours to burn off this morning’s fog!

All in all, a great first week.  We are pleased with the yields so far.  As always, we attribute the good yields to the blessing from God.  We can do everything we know to do to produce a good crop, but without His providing favorable weather, it does not amount to much.

Have a lovely weekend.