Thursday, October 31, 2013

"A time to Sow" - 95% of the winter grain crop is in the ground.

Happy Halloween from the Jepson Boys!

I had a couple of early trick or treaters the other evening sowing wheat.  They brought me a snack and the treat of spending time with my favorite little boys.  They love riding in the tractor.  It doesn't take long until they are asleep though!


The continued wet weather pattern has narrowed our planting window for wheat.  Auto steer really helps during long days and nights.

No-Tilling wheat directly into standing corn residue with a 35' air seeder.

Loading seed into the air drill.  It holds 220 bushels of seed.  It will plant about 90 acres to the fill up.



Chris Marklin drilling barley with the 30' box drill.  The barley will be sold for feed rations for livestock.  The no-till coulters work the ground in front of the double disc seed openers that place the seed into the seed bed.


The first wheat we planted has come up and is looking good!  It always make us feel good to see the fruits of our labor when our crops start coming out of the ground.  The Fall of the year is a time to harvest and a time to sow.


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