Tuesday, October 7, 2025

We are having a little rain today, and it is very welcome to be here.  It has been so very dry for many weeks, and the fire danger was increasing.  But the dry weather also allowed us to move through the soybean crop at a good pace.  So, there are plusses and minuses in every situation.   In addition, Larry was able to get all of our planned wheat acres planted, just a tick over 100o of them!   The rain today is very good for these wheat acres, to help get them started.  Some of Larry’s earlier-planted fields are now turning a beautiful green again.   We are grateful for this rain, a lower amount than the 1.4″ predicted, but so very helpful in many ways.

Larry finished planting wheat here at the Shake farm.

The talk around the community has been how much dust and dirt has been lofted into the air by the soybean harvest.   Yes, it has been particularly dusty dirty this fall.  Maybe to an unusual extent.   But today’s rain should tamp down that problem.

Yes, it was really dusty cutting soybeans the past several days.  This is the view from the seat of the combine!

Soybean harvest went quite well, and only about 34 acres of late replanted soybeans are yet to get mature enough to cut.  Of course, we have all the double-crop soybeans (DCB) too, but those are turning fast.

Soybean harvest

We started back into corn harvest on Friday evening at the Shake farm.  We finished there Saturday afternoon, and Shake had the best corn crop ever from that farm.  We moved to the Dunn farm and discovered that the replanted acres there are not ready.  So, we had to cut around the greener corn, and that slows the process considerably!  We did not work on Sunday, but we finished all we could get at Dunn yesterday afternoon.  By then, it was clouding up and beginning to have periods of light, misty rain.  We moved down to the Steen farm at Wheatland, but we were only there a couple hours until the rain was too heavy to continue.  We at least got the Steen Big field opened up (meaning the end rows all around the field were harvested).

Corn harvest

It’s still drizzly this morning, but that is supposed to clear away by afternoon.   Then, the forecast is for about 10 more sunny days.  The temperatures may cool somewhat, but sunshine is predicted.

Pat captured a morning view from the backyard, overlooking some DCB

The DCB are coming right along… maybe they’ll cut in a couple weeks!

This afternoon or tomorrow, we will return to harvesting corn.