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The rainbow ended right over the
Pioneer seed boxes! |
What a great day for planting! Last night about 8:00 we had a rain shower and then the sun came out, the wind stopped blowing and we had a double rainbow.
This morning started out with the sun
and just a breeze. It was a "full crew" day. Besides our two fulltime employees we have three spring and fall parttime helpers. Rollie is our neighbor, landlord and ace soil finisher operator. Chuck retired from the co-op a couple of years
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| Or maybe it ended in the corn field. |
ago and now helps haul NH3 tanks early in the spring and then helps get seed delivered to customers and our planters. Stan, works in town and helps us in the evenings and weekends. He has been helping Mom and Dad for about 20 years. Stan runs the NH3 applicator and the planters. Then we have our intern. Amos is an agronomy major at U of W, Plattville, we keep him busy in the Pioneer Hi-Bred department. Without our great part-time help we would never accomplish what we do everyday.
I snuck out of the seed warehouse today and made a seed delivery. I hadn't been off the farm since Monday and wanted to see what was happening in the country. Wow! There is a lot of corn in the ground especially considering that no one really got started planting around here until Monday. Tonight Joe and I were going through inventories and looking at customers needs and we came to the conclusion that our area is at least 40% planted.
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This is our soybean planter. In a typical year (a phrase I use very lightly)
we have one planter on corn and one on soybeans. Because of the late
start to planting we are using both planters to get the corn planted. |
That is amazing - in five days we can be so far along in planting completion. I listen to the Big Show on WMT Radio at noon on the weekdays and it sounds like this is state wide. I would like to know how acres there are per planter row in Iowa. In other words - how many acres does each planter row plant in Iowa. Equipment has come a long ways. Rollie always laughs at how we can plant more corn in one day than he used to plant in an entire spring. One of these days I'm going to sneak out of the warehouse again and hopefully take a few pictures of Dad planting and show you what the inside of a tractor during planting season looks like.
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This is a seed tender. We deliver bulk corn and soybean seed to
our customers with these. By using bulk seed, customers eliminate LOTS
of paper bags. Bulk seed is great for handling and for the environoment. |
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