2024 harvest is in the books.
I did take last Saturday off to watch the two oldest girls play softball, so we finished corn Monday. Double crop beans were ready this week, so we ran those Thursday. Final tallies will have to wait for the weather to flip as we have moved straight into drainage work this week. Again, we couldn't ask for better weather!
The drainage goal is to do a bunch of little odds and ends in the next week – or two – or three. These jobs take more time than they do money and seem appropriate for the current economy.
We already tackled three fields. We replaced broken outlets into the ditch, broken tile through wet areas and installed a couple strings of tile that didn't get done when we ditched the rest of the field. Like is often said, maintaining drainage requires a lot of 'investigation'. We're fair-weather ditchers, so we will work until it gets too cold or too wet, or we exceed our budget.
Tillage work was delayed this week. One of the big tractors moved over to the tiling projects, while a sensor failure shut down the other one for a couple days. Friday the tractor will be up and running again. However, light rain is expected so that will delay the move back to tillage.
If it doesn't rain too much, I'll probably put the tile plow tractor back to tillage for Saturday since a couple of kids will be home and willing to work. Really, we don't have a lot of tillage left on the 'have to do', or even the 'like to do' lists. One or two days would get us to the point of indifference.
Hopefully everyone is getting close to wrapping up harvest. Continue to stay safe out there!
