Remember 9-11

What an important week in our nation. A time to remember a day where our nation came together in a unity that we won't soon forget. Please take a moment today to remember those lives that were lost and the families that were torn apart. Remember to take a moment to tell those special people that you love them. 

What's been occurring on the farm? Well, more fall calving. We weaned calves this week. 

Harvest will be approaching very soon. When the corn ears turn down, it will be ready to harvest. 

Lots of things going on. Taking advantage of a little break to get the house ready for the busy season that is approaching. 

Sorry about the short blog. Harvest photos coming soon!

Silage Chopping/Fall Calving

This week we were busy preserving corn for the cattle for this winter. This is the first time I have really been involved in filling an upright silo. And I've decided that I don't like it. However, being involved in a diverse agricultural operation there are bound to be things that I don't like doing. The great thing is that it only took a couple of days and I was really only involved on one of those days. 

This is Matt with the chopper. We have a pull type chopper that chops three rows. 

The chopper (right behind the tractor) takes the corn and grinds it into little pieces. The yellow piece blows it into a wagon. When the wagon gets full, somebody has to unhook it and hook on an empty one. Then the full one is pulled to the silo. 

This was my job. Transporting the full wagons to the silo for Henry to unload.  

The wagons are unloaded and the blower blows the silage up to the top of the silage where it then floats to the top of the pile of silage in the silo. 

Fall calving has officially started. I check them twice a day and tag the new calves. 

We've had two sets of twins so far. This was the first cow that calved. I didn't even know she ha twins for about a week. Every time I checked her she had one with her. Then one morning when I was driving across another pasture, I saw her with two. Sure enough she had twins and is taking great care of them. 

Sometime they need a little help. Luckily this cow is very gentle and with the persuasion of a few wheat mids and a little patience, we got this calf eating right away. Abilene is my constant calving companion. She goes with me to the pastures night and morning.

That's about all that's going on on our farm. Pretty soon harvest will start and we'll get really busy. Hope all is well in your lives.