Wednesday, May 1, 2024

May has arrived, and the neighborhood is very quiet.   Like the Night Before Christmas, “not a creature is stirring”.   The fields are still too wet and soft for us to plant or even run the sprayer.  But it is a warm and beautiful day out there!   86ºF (30C)  This warmth will help the emerging seedlings of corn and soybeans.  Our first-planted corn field is mostly emerged and thriving today.  The first-planted soybean field is about 40-50% emerged, and should look great by Monday.  We will take a Gator ride here this afternoon to check one more time to see if John can run the sprayer, but I’m not optimistic about finding any one of the remaining fields that will support the sprayer.  Not today.  But we must look.

A warm and beautiful day at Carnahan & Sons.

Pat’s first few strawberries from her patch at home is beginning to bear fruit.  I think there is nothing quite so tasty as that first strawberry pie of the season.   Soon, it looks like she will have an abundance of new berries!

The first ones picked are always sweet.

We have the machines serviced and fueled and DEF’d…ready for the next available day to get back to work.