Hi,
  Been a while since I have written. We have been real busy trying to get our crops in and fix our equipment. Have more corn in on Fetters now and more to plant. We are still not have our soybeans in yet.. The land has been too wet and we have been having problems getting help.

    Fixing our equipment has been a challenge. Getting people to help when needed is tough. I have pictures of the process of our equipment makeovers. Also our corn that was previously planted is up and now needs cultivating..

   We have had help from Justin Hopple,  Steve Mincemoyer, Adreana Mincemoyer, David(son of Steves wife), Delbert Mincemoyer.

Hubby has been out plowing and discing when he can with all the waiting of ground to be dry enough to do so..

Our busy time of the year, I feel like a widow, although hubby has me running errands and picking him up every so often. It has been hard on me when I need to get things done in home. It just doesn't get done..

  Farming by yourself and not much help takes a long time to get things done. Eventually it does. :)

 Until another post, see ya later..

Yesterday there was 10.7 acres of corn planted in Moran's fields and today hubby is doing more planting. He is also doing more plowing. discing is being done by Amos Hostettler.

  Soon I hope we will get the Fetter field started and will be planting soybeans on it..

    Yesterday June 1st 2014 we painted our cultivating Oliver 1655 tractor. With the help of a few friends, Shari Rosier, Justin Hopple and us..It looks good but needs  more painting and put back together..

 
     Today June 2nd, 2014 hubby is doing more plowing and we hired hands to disc and plant corn on Moran's fields .. we used the same seed from last year Blue River 104 Day 53R57 variety. 

Didn't get pictures of planting.. But excited the weather held out and the ground dry enough to plant..

Our new fields, Moran's is getting more turkey manure added today..Fetter's fields are too wet yet, when they put lime on it hubby had to go and get the driver unstuck..with our skidder..

Wow it's been awhile since I wrote. Not much to say except we are still making our planter and fixing our cultivating tractor. The rains won't stay away long enough for us to get our fields prepared. We did have lime added today to all our fields. Hubby has gotten some of the fields plowed and brush and trees chopped off of Moran's fields. As for Fetters we have not started them yet.

  Have not been able to take many pictures yet, will post what I can soon..

   Frustration and stress are the norm for some farmers and hubby is not exempt from that. I have started to become a farmers widow and also the go-for all things needed...

   Thanks for all the watchers, please follow my blog...

Our extra acres we acquired this year is 45. We still have the 60.9 acres from last year. We will be doing mostly corn, but will still do soybeans too. Acres in each crop will be determined later..
  Hubby is still making his own corn planter with parts of Oliver and Yetter planters. So far its going well , he is doing the making of it when he can. Today he will do some discing on the new fields..

April 29th
  We are having a lot of rain, so our discing and plowing are going to have to wait. Hubby is still working on his equipment for this year, so he has something to do while its bad weather.
   As for me I am helping him plus getting some things done inside, I mulched some flower beds and  I'm still waiting for the garden to get tilled so I can plant. I did have one area tilled so I could plant peas and spinach which have just popped up.. Our lawnmower is broke down so that can't be done right now either.
  A Spring time rain, some flowers are out and with this rain more will be coming. I love Spring..