Friday, March 15, 2024
Another rain last night has brought field work to a stop. We had begun to use the field cultivator in some fields here close to home that were dry enough work. But today, that is stopped! We were also able on Wednesday to apply a herbicide to a field at the Harry farm and another field at the Waldo farm, in order to burn down the rye that was planted late last summer. If you recall, we did some significant conservation work on that field after last summer’s wheat crop, and did not plant double-crop soybeans there. Instead, we did the conservation work and planted rye on top to protect it from erosion.
Here’s a map of the Harry field showing where John applied the herbicide on the cover-crop rye. This is taken from a mobile app of JD Operations Center.
The new corn planter has arrived at the dealer, Hutson, Inc. in Jasper, Indiana. We went down to check it out Thursday morning. The dealer has a lot of fine-tuning work to do to get this machine set up and ready for the field. Within a month, this machine should see plenty of action in our corn fields!
Brandon with the new planter. He is excited about what this new machine will do for us.
The JD 1775NT planter is 24 30-inch rows.
Here John inspects the big seed boxes.
Brandon has noted that he has a big job ahead of him to learn the details of this new JD 1775NT planter. He has started that task, and he was working with John this morning to start getting up-to-speed.
John and Brandon use this drizzly morning to review some online simulators to prepare Brandon to run the new corn planter.
This picture brings a smile to my face to see the NextGen of Carnahan & Sons working so closely together.
The weekend is upon us. We don’t place very many outside things in our schedule this time of year, so that we can be ready to go to the field anytime it’s ready for us. Sunday morning church is the only sure thing we set. Plus, if you can’t get your fill of college basketball over the next few weeks, you’re not really trying.
Have a lovely weekend.
