Monday, November 4, 2024
It’s a gray and windy old November day, but there is a lot of activity today at Carnahan & Sons. The two Brandons are currently delivering corn to GPC, but they are also engaged in washing up the equipment. Currently in the shop is the older S780 combine, just at the beginning stages of getting washed. It has already been blasted with compressed air, getting the big chunks off before it gets wet. The newer S780 is now completely clean, it looks like new, and it would certainly qualify as #Andyclean! It has been parked in the new building, ready for the winter.
Loading the Pete for the next trip to GPC
The Tony truck is ready to pull away on its next trip
The older S780 is ready for its turn to be washed.
Brandon D did a fabulous job washing the newer S780, and it is now stored away in the new building.
We have Dustin Hatton at work with his bulldozer and excavator at the Dunn farm, repairing a grass waterway. There has been a sharp erosion take place there over the past few seasons, and he is going to make it look good again. He will also do similar work at the Ross farm and also at Huey. When he gets ready for it, I’ll take the little JD 6145R tractor and old 1560 NT drill to plant some rye on any soil that he has disturbed, hoping to protect it from erosion this winter.
Looks like Dustin will soon be ready for me to plant some rye on this waterway project
We have made our hybrid and variety seed selections for 2025 corn and soybeans. We met with our representatives last Thursday. It took about 3 hours of discussions to arrive at a final plan. Some hybrids of corn will cost a bit more than 2024, but overall our seed expense for ’25 will go down a tiny bit. Every little nick in costs helps the cause.
Much of the fertilizer for 2025 corn and soybeans has already been applied. A few fields were slower to get the soil test results back, but those are now on hand, and most of the remaining fields can now be applied. Nutrien is working on that today. That is also costing a bit less per acre than in 2024
Tomorrow, we will be working at the local polls in support of John who is a candidate for South Knox School Board. I held that office for 5 terms, but retired from that in 2016. I am confident he will be a good school board member, willing to do whatever it takes to be prepared and knowledgeable in that role. It could be kinda unpleasant for John’s volunteers (including his mom and me) to stand outside the polling places tomorrow… the weather is forecast to be very windy (like today) but with the added challenge of rain! Even so, we will greet the voters tomorrow on John’s behalf. His is one of the very few contested races in Knox County. The ‘early voting’ turnout has reportedly been pretty big already.
Have a good week, and if you haven’t already, go vote tomorrow. I’m the kind of guy that prefers to vote on election day, and I plan to do so early tomorrow morning.
The sunsets here have been extra-special here for the past several days.
Friday evening
