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Finished harvest for the season today. Been pushing hard for the past couple weeks, with a short break this past weekend for the annual deer hunt here in Cheeseland. Snapped a quick shot as I walked away from the combine as the sun was setting. Blessed with a bountiful and safe harvest again...

Thanks Hydroskreemin I’ve been extremely happy with most all my new equipment. Considering the last item of the first package of machines just finally showed up Wednesday morning, yes the salesman and I have been in touch regularly. The sprayer was excellent and worked flawlessly. That is a...

I enjoy sharing my story with all of you guys. Unfortunately, what you all find interesting and amazing, I take For granted. To benefit this thread, I’ve taken a little time the last couple nights to go back to the original farm tour thread and reread from the beginning. There has been a pile...

Welcome to the show @Warlock1. Glad to know there is a few guys that have at least some understanding. TDF

All of the above. Lol obviously, loose, well drained, high organic matter, high CEC (ability to retain nutrients) soils are good soils. But we don’t always get to choose our medium To grow into. My soils are almost all very high sand, low cec,low OM soils. And without irrigation, very well...

Thanks @HydroSkreamin. Yeah detailing corn was definitely a better job than shearing trees. Not that both were not hot and tiring. That is a good question and thanks for the request for direction. So detailing corn is still a thing. What is that? Exactly what it says. Removal of the...

Arch, your math isn’t too bad. One thing that you have keep in mind is each year is different, and every variety reacts differently every year, and this year is an exceptionAl year for most all varieties. For example, I have had many of the same varieties in the past year or two. In some...

Ironic I read your post after I posted my last update about rereading the initial thread

I have spent the last hour sitting here going back through the original Midwest Farm Tour thread trying to jog my memory about how this all started. Wow, what a long time ago. Feel free to go look it up if you haven’t been following for that long (started the original in 2019). Maybe I’ll do...

Some might think It’s a little bit of a LAM, but really its Just me telling the story of my crop year. Each year I work with my Bayer seed company rep and agronomist to plant variety plots. It started out as a small single plot with about six varieties has expanded to two plots of 12 varieties...

Sunset in God‘s country.

Trying to share a few drone shots a friend shared with me, and a couple photos I took of the cart filling the truck. Just for reference, it takes the cart operator about a minute or a little less to fill the semi trailer with roughly 1000-1100 bushels.

When you say they let the corn turn brown, basically they are letting it mature and die naturally. For field corn, once it has hit maturity, or black layer as it is called, typically the grain is roughly 30-35% moisture. At that point in growth, the plant will stop putting anything more into...

Had a rain day today so we Got the new girl ready to do a little work. That is a sweet setup. I think my hired guy is gonna like that rig vs the other tractor he was running.

Our new tillage tractor that we ordered months ago finally showed up today. Sexy beast. Pulled it in the shop and will get the gps equipment set up and ready tomorrow. May even hook it to the grain cart for a few days and give it a try.