This summer has gone incredibly fast, and suddenly we’re looking at fall harvest right around the corner. This year’s corn silage harvest will likely start close to September 20th. Summer has been very dry for us, and we won’t know the true effect of this mild drought especially on our lighter soils until we start fall harvest in a few weeks.
Preparations for fall harvest begin with the equipment. As soon as we start harvest, the equipment will be in the fields chopping corn fora solid three weeks. Then we go right to combining soybeans, putting winter wheat into the ground and putting the nutrients back onto the fields. Once it’s started, we’ll be working on it almost nonstop until about late November.
The ironic part about this time of year is that we haven’t even started the 2018 fall harvest, but we’re already planning for next year’s crop rotation. We’re making decisions about what crops will be in what fields and how much seed we’ll need for each crop. Even though spring planting is still months away, we’re already thinking about it.
We just finished harvesting the wheat, which I think is one of the most beautiful crops to harvest. One of our team members always manages to get amazing pictures of the harvest, and they’re some of my favorites.
