As Summer leaves it's warm, dry conditions, we enter into a beautiful season called Fall. The trees are turning many colors and the temperature is dropping but still no rain. With corn harvest complete, its now time for beans. We started with cutting some former CRP no-till ground with the BPA not the greatest but given the year, not bad. We then headed over to harvest our Tu-Fu beans next with improvement over the other fields. The yield wasn't the best but average for this year so far. With most first-crop beans cut, we have a short window of time before we begin cutting double-crop beans.
We have recently made two purchases to aid in land clearing! We have have also been doing some custom jobs as we find the time to offset the purchase costs.
Purchase number one: 2008 John Deere 325 skid loader with 507 hours.
Purchase number two was is a brand new Brush Monster Brush Cutter. This cuts and shreds brush and trees under 4" which saves time and money for the land-owner rather than using the Marshall Tree Saw.
We have also updated our grain bin to a new pad and installed a new floor, unloading augers, and installed roof vents. Soon we will be building another pad and constructing another grain bin left of the new site. This adds safety and security along with more efficient ways to monitor and keep grain in great condition.
We also have 90% of winter wheat planted on bean ground.
As if all that wasn't enough for just a handful of people, we have been clearing more CRP and former CRP land using the skid loaders. We have cleared roughly 150 acres since our last posting with several more hundred more to go next year.
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In our next blog, we will finish up bean harvest and show more land clearing along with more pictures of the grain bin. Please check out our new YouTube page at: www.youtube.com/morrisfarmmo
