Crop report with photos!

We made it home in the village around midnight. Victor drove us home from Dnepro when we got off the train shortly after eleven pm.

He gave us all the news- there was a fire at the farm while we were gone- cause unknown but spread by dry grass and hay bales near the middle barn where they have housed some calves and heifers this summer- and they had a firetruck (or three?) come from Zaporosia  to put it out. We are down to four students (2 new) and five grads as of yesterday, so we will be looking for more.

The middle barn had the grass on the roof catch fire!

We didn't have a key to get in the house, but were able to wake up one of the girls staying in the house while we were gone. She let us in with a little trouble- we got in the door on the other side of the house and had to carry the suitcases around in the dark.

Strangely Garry had more trouble getting to sleep than I did and was still awake at 3 am, so he slept in until after 10 am before we went off to check out the crops and things. Since the boys in Manitoba were able to get me a new cord to charge the Nikon I was able to get good photos to add to today's post!

Irrigated corn field versus non irrigated next to it, same seed, less water.  Garry plans to start chopping the irrigated field for silage next this week, this afternoon the guys started rolling up the irrigation lines to save for next year.

tall tall irrigated corn

nice cobs everywhere

the green irrigated and the brown non-irrigated 

irrigated versus non cobs (non-denting variety)

Garry promised me just now that there is better corn out there, they had half the irrigation lines rolled up by six pm today. More photos when they start chopping it. We also checked out our sunflowers.

Field close to the barn

Near the highway

other side of the highway

We stopped at the shop where Max and his brother Artom were working on a tire.

Then we went to the barn...

There are some students left!

The straw barn is very full

Unfortunately the fire burned up the wooden calf hutches that Garry had moved over to the new farm. As far as I know no one was hurt in the fire, including calves.