Farm Blog

Yesterday was spent running a grain cart for a neighbor. The objective of running a grain cart is to catch the combine as it's making a pass to allow it to dump its corn into the cart while the combine is still moving and combining. The alternative is to stop the combine at each end of the field to dump and this takes time. Since every little bit that spills is money, and the augers that move the corn from combine to cart and cart to truck or wagon move such a large volume of grain so quickly, it's a little nerve racking making sure that no mistakes are made which would put a pile of corn on the ground real quick. But it has been enjoyable and, knock on wood, we've had no major mistakes yet. Today is the last day and the neighbor's corn should be in the bin. Tomorrow it's back to working on the barn to get the chickens moved in.