Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The weather this week has been pretty nice.  The mornings are cool, in the high 50s or low 60s.  Daytime highs have been mid-80s.  Really comfortable.  It’s a topic of conversation anywhere you go.

Fall preparations continue here.  The CIH 8250 had some more post-inspection work done to it.  It should now be completely ready for the upcoming harvest season.  Wheat continues to be delivered down the the ADM locations on the Ohio River.   And a few other repairs are happening.

Trucks are ready to head out this morning.

Grain tank loading auger gets replaced

Brandon and Jake go out this morning with loads of wheat

John is making some repairs to our backhoe…there is a wire causing a short in there somewhere, and he is tracking it down to fix it.

John will certainly find the problem wire and get it repaired

John also used some stockpiles of stone here at the farm to fill some potholes in the farm lane.  He has it looking much better, and it is easier and smoother to drive in and out of here.

After fixing the backhoe, John leaves late this morning to spray some Roundup on targeted areas of some double-crop soybeans (DCB).

Looking forward to corn and soybean harvest, probably to begin in about 3 weeks.    It will likely be in a corn field where we will begin.   You can see a slight, faint hint of the earliest-planted fields beginning to “turn” (change color from deep green to gold).