Updates – Page 18 – NuttyGrass

Step Two of Crimson Clover Harvest

We have started combining the Crimson clover for this year. With this warm weather we have been having, it only took 6 days to dry the crop enough to start harvesting.

Since the crop is so early this year, about 10 days ahead of last year, our regular crew of drivers is at their tractor safety school this week. So the job has gone to Matt and I for the time being.
Matt in the yellow and me in the green. I also had a great helper to pass the day, my niece Lila came for a ride!

In her very practical combining outfit of course! Happy Friday everyone and happy harvesting farmers!

Photo Friday…What is Growing?

Well it’s spring…full blown spring. Which means everything around us is growing at an alarming (good kind of alarming) rate. We have had some great sunshine, mixed with some warm rain. Here’s a pic of how the farm dog Yukon deals with a little spring rain…

I took this photo while driving to work today, spring wheat that is moving up to the sun in what seems like inches every day!

The grass is moving up to knee height, and boots are now a requirement if you want to walk fields and not soak your jeans. The headlands are full of weeds to be sprayed back before they infect our seed crop. But as my Grandpa Carl would have said, “If weeds don’t grow…nothin’ will grow.”