A day on the Farm MB- part two- field work

I got to drive the car to help move all this stuff from this field, which was finished, to the next new corn field

 

The corn planter folds up to drive down the road

The boys rolling up the hydraulic hoses- they have to use a tractor since the Ford truck's hydraulics aren't working, the truck has fertilizer in to go into the planter with the corn seed

Joel heads to the shop for a welding fix on the planter first

Noah and Josh go to the new field, but then they decide Noah should get the rock picker with the red tractor, to get a few more stones out of the field before planting (this is Karen's field- all the fields are named.)The field below is the largest field, it's named Big Tex, I believe, because someone said it was as big as Texas when they first started plowing it up, after they bought it 2 years ago, it used to have buffalo in it, which is why there are fence posts.

I took Josh back to the field to get his truck,we both stopped to say hello to the neighbors who were out for their daily morning walk.

  then I followed him back to the yard where he loaded a pallet of a different corn seed to plant in the is field- a silage variety, he's just driving past Uncle Bob Grenier's house, our neighbor who passed away recently, we pasture heifers on his quarter section, next to our house

 

Now Josh needs a different tractor to run the truck hydraulics

 

Setting down the new tillage equipment

Unhooking the hydraulic hoses

It's really big, but it will do the job!

Windy out today, but warming up, there were 850 acres of corn planted at the start of the day, and this field was finished by the end of the day

 

 

Here's why they are short on tractors- this tractor caught on fire and burned near the shop, shortly after returning from Matt's farm (yes it was turned off too!) It was only 3 or 4 years old, too.

The boys retired the old manure tankers this spring, replacing them with a drag line which delivers the manure right into the fields with a very long hose. In the second photo you see lagoon one being agitated and the liquid is then pumped through the hose to a field more than a mile away! The sand used for bedding the cows ends up in that first lagoon, which is why it looks so different than the second lagoon, which looks like a big pool, You may notice that the lagoons are made of cement with a black liner material to prevent any manure leaking into the soil under them.The blue tractor is applying the manure to the field near where the corn was planted the day before. After the field is manured, then Noah comes along with that big new 4WD tractor and the tillage machine Josh was unhooking in the yard to prepare it for planting.

 

A view of the barns from the lagoon, looks like the calf feeding is for the next post!