Tag Archives: JD N550 no-till drill

Soybean planter stored away

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 The cleaning of the soybean drill and cart was completed this morning! Brandon finished that off early today.  Then, we had to spend quite some time decoupling the two parts of the machine.  We have no … Continue reading

Posted in News | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Oh my… just a little bit more…

Friday, July 17, 2026 Yesterday afternoon, I went back to the Shake farm to replant some acres of double-crop soybeans (DCB).   The ‘stand’ had been reduced by wet soils in areas when I was planting the original time.  I had … Continue reading

Posted in Harvest, News, Planting, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

#plant26 is done!

Wednesday, April 15, 2025 As I drove up onto US 50 out of the Commer field yesterday evening to head towards home with the JD 9R540 tractor, the 1910 air cart, and N550 NT drill, the planting of 2026 soybeans … Continue reading

Posted in Family Life, News, Planting | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

First days of #plant26

Saturday, April 4, 2026 It is a rainy day today.  That’s not all bad, it has been quite dry for quite some time now.  The fields that have had the NH3 applied will benefit from this rain. We were able … Continue reading

Posted in News | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

December is moving along…

Thursday, December 11, 2025 Boy, oh boy!  The calendar pages are flipping over at a rapid pace.  It’s been a while since I’ve had a post on this site.   It has been busy here. After Thanksgiving, Pat and I traveled … Continue reading

Posted in Family Life, Farm Days | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Slowly, slowly…

Monday, July 14, 2025 Slowly I am getting the office computer whipped back into usefulness.  I found a way today to re-load the MS Office software back into the machine… Excel, Outlook, and Word.  Now, I can fire those up … Continue reading

Posted in Farm Days, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Planting for 2025 is finally done.

Monday, July 7, 2025 Last Saturday morning, I was able to go up to the Lett farm (between Wheatland and Bicknell) and finish off the planting of double-crop soybeans (DCB).  I had been planting there the previous Saturday, and ran … Continue reading

Posted in Farm Days, Planting | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

It’s a start…#plant25

Thursday morning, April 24, 2025 Well, we got going yesterday afternoon with the corn planter.  Brandon went down to the field at VanVleet, and later to the Dunn farm and he got two fields planted with corn.  We are about … Continue reading

Posted in Farm Days, News, Planting | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Quiet work week, but wacky weather

Friday, April 4, 2025 This week has been busy, but nothing out in the fields.  The weather has been uncooperative, and the effects of it will last into next week.  Early in the week, we had strong winds, and then … Continue reading

Posted in Farm Days, News | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

G’bye, 2023

Friday, December 29, 2023 It’s the last workday of the year, and it’s a busy one for us at Carnahan & Sons.   Bill and Brandon are hauling 12 loads of corn to GPC at Washington, Indiana.    GPC is unusually … Continue reading

Posted in Farm Days, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment