In October we were busy in the fields harvesting corn silage. After a less-than-ideal winter and spring, we are pleasantly surprised at how well our crops are coming off of the fields.
At the beginning of 2017, we really had no idea what our crops were going to look like. Thinking back, the spring weather was horrible. We got into the fields late because the ground was so wet. We were constantly asking ourselves questions: Are the fields ready? Are they not ready? Can we wait another day to see if they’ll dry off more? After the spring we had, it’s amazing that we are having such a good harvest.
After the crops were planted, it kind of kept raining, and rain makes grain… to a point. Too much or too little will kill the crop. All of the decisions we made in the spring were running through our head all summer. One of the challenges of most springtime decisions is that you can’t take them back. Once they’re made, you’re set for the year, and you have to sit back and pray that it works.
We got really lucky this year. Our corn silage yield will be one of our highest years ever. The soybeans are looking good, too. This year was a textbook year of making decisions the best we could, Mother Nature being kind, and proving that it will all work out at the end of the day.
