Family Life on a Farm Schedule

Well the crazy season is almost coming to an end, so I better get everyone caught up!
 In early April we disked, shredded stalks, row stalked (cutting the old roots or "crown" out of the old row), chisled and I even got in on the action a few days I was off from my paying job. This was a very windy, dry dirt flying kind of day. What...

It is officially Spring! We are thankful to see more and more daylight every day around here and I think most of the family is recovered from the "Spring Forward" time change (I personally really dislike daylight savings time, it is hard on all of us...

Well we have been extremely busy the past 2 1/2 years, so much so that keeping up the blog took a direct hit and as you can see, it has not been updated since Fall of 2011. Wow! We have so much to share but I will try to make this as short as possible...

Beans, beans, beans!!!
These soybeans are all dried up and ready to be cut. You can see the fuzz still on the pods but if you grab one, the fuzz will come off and the pod is likely to spill the beans~sorry couldn't help myself :)
 A good look at the field from the front of the combine. To the left are the rows already cut and to the right are the rows Chris is working on. These were irrigated beans and made about 73 bushels per acre....