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Farming Fridays!

May 23, 2014

Sticks and Stones 

… may break our disc bladess!
One of the most time consuming and labor intensive things in farming is converting a field from one thing to another. Last year we took on some new property that had been planted as an apple orchard. The trees were old and were removed. Unfortunately, they definitely were not forgotten. 
The process of converting the field is complicated by the fact that there are branches, tree roots, and rocks in the field. All of those things, but especially the rocks, can cause havoc on our farm equipment.
For example, this week.
Tillage equipment.

  My brother was tilling of the recently converted fields and ran into a rock. As you can see, the disk has a lots of these circular disc blades that run through the soil and break up the dirt. Unfortunately, big rocks can also get stuck between the discs.

Keep your hammer handy.
I had to deliver several metal hammers to the field this week so my brother could literally chop up rocks that get lodged between the discs (yes, they are large rocks). Unfortunately, my pictures from the field didn’t turn out, but the rocks were large enough to get jammed in between the discs. As you can imagine, something like that has the potential to break the equipment, especially the combine. So it is important that we find the rocks before they cause damage.
It makes the job a little harder, but never a dull moment!
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  1. Anonymous says

    May 26, 2014 at 12:49 pm

    The rocks in the field was probably the reason for it being an apple orchard.

    • TheFarmersDaughterUS says

      May 27, 2014 at 2:59 am

      Perhaps, yes.

Farming Fridays!

August 23, 2013

It’s Never Too Early To Be Prepared

TGIF! 
Can you believe that it’s already the end of August?! Where has the summer gone?? 
The little red flag looks like a shrimp these days…

Take a look at the ears and you can see that the “hair” or silk is dark now. This means the fertilization process is well done with and past. Thankfully, it looks like we’re going to have nice big ears this year!

Dad does all of his own trucking, so right now is the time to start getting the equipment ready to go. This week we had the semi-truck in the shop getting painted. You can also see the combine in the background! 

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Hi, I'm Amanda. My family farms corn and soybeans in Southwest Michigan. I'm an attorney and I'm passionate about agriculture!

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