A Video Montage of Our 2020 Growing Season
While I don’t make one of these every year, I do love putting together these drone and photo montages of the growing season. Check it out below! Thanks to my…
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A Year In The Life Of A Farmer
For many years, I wondered how agriculture could get its message out to the public about what exactly it is that we do. Why do we spray pesticides? Why do…
Do Farmers Actually Work During The Winter?
There has been, and continues to be, a long-standing stereotype about what grain farmers do for the winter months. I think it can be summed up as “not a whole…
The Harvest of a Lifetime
If I could sum up the 2013 growing season in one word, it would be this: rollercoaster. As I look back to my very first blog post on April 18 of…
Winter Wheat is an Exercise in Optimism
One of the strangest experiences during harvest is its polar opposite – seeding! Although winter wheat planting is difficult to accomplish during the busiest time of the year, it is…
Follow Your Dreams
Have you ever had a dream? I don’t mean a dream as in the one you see in your sleep and soon forget. I mean something that inspired you, or…
The Farm Life is a Wonderful Life
If you have read my previous post (The Marathon Concludes… For Now), you know that seeding has been completed and we are well into in-crop spraying. This is a fascinating…
