Our fall continued to be warm thru the month of September allowing us to harvest soybeans in record time. With a bit of help from Ellenson Farms we were able to take off more than 1300 acres in about 11 days.
With no major breakdowns and no rain or snow in sight corn harvest started just 2 days after soybean harvest wrapped...and took about 6 full days to complete.
There was little time to do anything else but we did have time to take one of our pumpkins to the local hangar and get it weighed. After taking a few bets as to how much the big girl weighed, we stuck her on the scale and she weighed exactly 200lbs! Not bad for our first attempt at growing pumpkins!
Nick also dabbled in growing white and blue pumpkins...a bit bizarre but very fun to harvest.
The boys are doing great in school, they were very excited that their dad got to pick them up at school today...not many dads are able to drive their combines up to the door!
We were blessed with good weather, good yields and no major breakdowns. As the fall rolls into winter there will be plenty of projects around the farm to get done...even a few in the house that just might get done!
Anyway just a brief update about soybean/corn harvest 2012. Hope this finds you all well, and we'll check back in later!
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