Monthly Archives: January 2025

Pete’s turn in the shop

Posted on January 30, 2025 by casifarm

Thursday, January 30, 2025 The Tony truck got cleaned up and serviced… the air lines to the trailer were also replaced.  After that, yesterday was the Pete truck’s turn in the shop to get  some attention. It was serviced, and … Continue reading →

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Shop work

Posted on January 27, 2025 by casifarm

Monday, January 27, 2025 The guys are working in the shop today.  They have the Tony truck in there servicing it, and ‘rotating’ the tires.  By swapping the driver tandem tire positions, it helps make for more uniform wear and … Continue reading →

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MT

Posted on January 21, 2025 by casifarm

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 On this really, really cold day (8ºF, with wind chill of -10ºF) the two Brandons are delivering soybeans to market.  As of today, we are now MT (empty) of 2024 soybeans; only corn remains in our … Continue reading →

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Delivering corn anyway…

Posted on January 14, 2025 by casifarm

Tuesday, January 14, 2-25 It’s only 10ºF (-12C) out there, but we have corn to deliver to GPC.  So, the two Brandons have their trucks loaded and they’re ready to go.  They spent all day yesterday washing the Tony and … Continue reading →

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another fluffy 5″ of snow…

Posted on January 11, 2025 by casifarm

Saturday, January 11, 2025 Yesterday afternoon and evening, we received more snow.  It was beautiful… no wind, just big fluffy flakes drifting down.  We waited until this morning to start clearing it away, for we wanted the snowfall to stop … Continue reading →

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Sugar coating on everything

Posted on January 9, 2025 by casifarm

Thursday, January 9, 2025 This morning we awoke to seeing the trees with a beautiful coating of frost.  It has been years since we’ve seen anything quite like this.  The extra-low temperature last night, oºF (-17C), helped this pretty phenomenon … Continue reading →

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Thin ice

Posted on January 8, 2025 by casifarm

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 I knew we had received a tiny bit of ice on Monday, but I didn’t realize how much it was.  My guess is that it is about 1/4 inch (6mm).   What was clinging to the north … Continue reading →

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Quiet week so far

Posted on January 7, 2025 by casifarm

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 With the big snow that roared in here on Sunday morning, things have been mostly at a standstill.  Yesterday afternoon, Brandon and John were out with the backhoe and the 6145R tractor + snowblower to clear … Continue reading →

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Nice day, but…

Posted on January 2, 2025 by casifarm

Thursday, January 2, 2025 It’s a beautiful day, with a brilliant blue sky out there today. The trucks are out today, delivering soybeans to ADM at Newburgh.  It’ll be quite slow, for the lines of trucks there are very long… … Continue reading →

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