It was almost too easy....
Normally when harvest rolls around we take a deep breath and pray for no major breakdowns or rainy weather.
This year...for some reason, the gods smiled down on the Vinje farm and we had one of the easiest harvests we've ever had.
Now, having said that, our yields were among the lowest we've ever had...so I guess, with everything, there is a trade off.
Corn harvest this year was different because last year we had the crop custom planted and custom combined (hired the neighbors).
We decided early on in the spring, that we were going to take advantage of some healthy corn prices and plant more corn this year...double what we raised last year. And this year, we were going to plant and combine our own crop.
So after soybean harvest wrapped, we went directly into corn harvest...starting on Oct. 6th and wrapping up less than a week later on Oct. 12th.
Not sure what the plan is for next year but at least the harvest of 2011 is in the books!
Currently Nick is digging several fields in prep for next spring.
After that, there is a little bit of corn to haul into the elevator and a bunch of 2010 barley to get rid of.
We've included a few pictures of corn harvest along with one of this years Pumpkin Fest...in which the boys invited over a few friends to carve pumpkins and decorate cookies. A fun time was had by all, even if more frosting got into the kids' mouths than on the actual cookies themselves.
Also a great big happy 1st birthday to Toby Vinje, who celebrated on Oct. 6th.
