Category Archives: Harvest

Beautiful weekend rain.

Monday, May 18, 2026   Last weekend brought us a really great rain.   It came in 3 separate bursts, Saturday morning, afternoon, and night. Depending on the field location, we received 1.0 to 1.7 inches (25 to 43 mm) of … Continue reading

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Caught up… kind of

Friday, May 15, 2026 There is a light rain falling late this morning, and it is welcome.  It was getting dry again, but this will help. John finished late yesterday with the application of herbicide/fungicide on the corn fields.  He … Continue reading

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Still wet

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 Another 1.42″ (36mm) rain fell overnight. And it has been rather cold for several days. This pushes back the time of replanting until at least next week.  And the forecast has another .3″ predicted for both … Continue reading

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Anticipating a wet week

Monday afternoon, May 4, 2026 Happy “Star Wars Day”!  (May the 4th be with you…) It was pretty chilly over the weekend, and we received a tiny rain in the wee hours of this morning.  Now, in the late afternoon, … Continue reading

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Inspecting wheat in SWIN

Friday, April 17, 2026 John has been out this morning checking on the wheat crop in the various fields.   Although the stand is a little thinner in some places than we would prefer, he is finding some nice size heads … Continue reading

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Clean and shiny

Friday, October 31, 2025 On this last day of October, the two Brandons delivered 4 loads of corn to GPC at Washington, then they turned their attention to washing.  The newer JD S780 combine was finished off with a scrubbing … Continue reading

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The great fall clean-up begins

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 The guys are concentrating on clean-up today.  Even though it is a gloomy, gray, and sometime drizzly day, they work diligently to remove harvest-time’s grime from the machines.  The combines especially are dirty… the corn fields … Continue reading

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#harvest25 is complete!

Saturday, October 25, 2025 There is a slight drizzle of rain off and on in the air this morning.   Even so, I took down our weathered and tattered flag today and replaced it with a bright new one. The good … Continue reading

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2025 Corn is done!

Monday, October 20, 2025 We finished harvesting corn on Saturday about noon, returning to the Dunn farm to pick some replanted corn that we had picked around when we were there a few weeks ago.  It felt good to load … Continue reading

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Past the halfway mark on #harvest25

Monday, October 13, 2025 It has now been 4 full weeks of #harvest25.   We are past half finished.   The early-planted (a relative term in 2025) soybeans are completed, and the DCB are coming on fast.  We have been working in … Continue reading

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