harvest

Tom Hoverstad who is a scientist at the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca will be my guest on AM Minnesota today. Someone from the Just Food Co-op in Northfield was scheduled but something came up so we will schedule it for a later date...

This is a common sight around elevators this fall. Piles of grain on the ground, a sign of very good yields. This is an elevator I drive by on the way out to the farm. It is not unusual to see piles of corn on the ground in the fall. However, there are a lot more this year...

Yesterday I finally noticed that the leaves have turned. I guess it was a hint when all the leaves were blowing around with the high winds. For most people, the leaves turning color is a sign of fall. That and maybe the Halloween advertising for haunted houses and parties...

I was out to the farm over the weekend combining beans. Driving out to the farm I saw a lot of other farmers harvesting beans. A few were already combining corn. The weather sure has been cooperating so far. Sure hope it continues for another month or so. One...

This is a picture of one of my bean fields. I planted this small field with an earlier variety while the rest of my beans were a full-season variety. I planted a few acres of an earlier variety so I could get started with harvest. It always seems like you can have the combine checked over and all greased, augers set up but there always seems to be something you did not anticipate that slows you do