Monday, September 23, 2024

Just a little past noon today, the rain finally got here and ran us out of the corn field.  We were only a couple miles from home, so we brought the machines in and put them inside.  It looks like we are in for a few days of rainy weather now… so much different from the month of August!

You could see the rain coming on the radar, and when it started, the field work was over…

Both combines are back inside and will stay dry.

Bill and Larry and Brandon will continue their day, hauling soybeans down to ADM at Newburgh, Indiana.  It takes about 3 hours to make the round-trip.  We have a lot of loads to deliver this month and next, so every opportunity is used to take grain to Newburgh.

It has been a good few days in the corn.  We had to switch back to harvesting corn last Friday, because we had already run through the April- and May-planted soybeans.  I think that once this rainy spell is over and the fields dry up again, we will have a a couple hundred acres of soybeans ripe enough for harvest.

Wheat planting typically starts on this farm on September 25…most years we do get going on that date.  With the weather forecast, and possibly another hurricane coming through, we don’t expect to get started by then.  But the window of opportunity for planting will give us 2 or 3 weeks to get that done.  We are increasing our wheat acres a bit over the past several years, based on economic and agronomic reasons.   The 2025 crop year will start soon!  It’s great to have Larry here to plant the wheat crop…he has decades of experience.

Have a nice week.