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Keeping safety in mind this planting season

  • Apr. 30, 2012
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    End of corn planting on a northwest Ohio farm

    We finished planting corn on April 24. Everything was working so smoothly that I wish I would have had more corn acres to plant. I had a Ram Tradesman pickup truck to test on our farm for a week this spring. It had the hemi motor in it. We used it to run some errands and pick up some parts. The truck would do zero to 60 mph in seven seconds. It was so dusty at times when we were running errands that my wife had trouble seeing the road. There were a lot of huge, strange rigs running up and down the roads....More
  • Apr. 23, 2012
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    Very early planting in Illinois

    Most years I plan to begin planing YC between April 15 and 25 and be finished by May 10. This year I will have all of our corn planted by April 25, plus 1/4 of our 2012 crop YSB crop has been planted for a week. Western Illinois soils are dry & warm.  Some of the warmth is coming from tractor engine heat; every direction you look there are at  least two farmers doing fieldwork without worry of getting stuck in the mud.  Good eyesight is not needed to spot tractors working in fields this year....More
  • Apr. 16, 2012
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    Getting the planter in the field

    This week there was a lot of dust flying in NW Ohio. I would guess that 2% of the corn has been planted.  My family started planting on Friday. We have a 20-year-old planter with dry fertilizer boxes so we needed to get the planter in the field and make sure that everything moves like it is supposed to. I am hoping for rain this week so that I can run an errand to central Indiana to pick up a few hog slats for my confinement building. My largest tractor is also 20 years old and is in the shop now.  Hopefully everything can be fixed on it in one day....More
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