Friday, November 14, 2025

It is a lovely day in SWIN today.  75ºF (24C).  Clear blue skies, gentle breeze.   For November, it doesn’t get any better than today.  Last Monday and its cold and snow seems like a distant memory.

The guys spent this beautiful day washing and cleaning.  Both corn heads were air-cleaned, washed, and then the chains lubricated.  The JD RD40R platform header (for wheat and soybeans) was washed, too.  The Pete and the Volvo semi-trucks and their trailers were washed.  There was good progress made today on the after-harvest clean-up effort.  Only remaining is the older S780 combine… and it can be done in the shop, if necessary, for the compressed-air cleaning has already been done.

Brandon D scrubbing the Volvo, and Brandon K working on the trailer

Brandon D doing some air-cleaning on one of the corn heads, the C12F.  After the wash, he sprayed the gathering chains with chain lube to protect them in the off-season.

Brandon D scrubs the 712FC corn head

I checked on several of the wheat fields this afternoon.  The wheat crop seems to be coming along pretty well.

Wheat at the Leser farm

We had our harvest dinner on Wednesday.  We invite our employees and their families to come to Bobe’s restaurant in Washington, and we all sit together and enjoy Bill’s good cooking.  His steaks were popular, as well as his pizza and other Italian dishes.  It was a joy to be together that evening and have a nice meal.   We are so grateful for the team.

Have a good weekend.  The weather next week is predicted to be in the 50s with several days of rain.  We will enjoy these nice days while they last.