Sweet Corn Sprouting

We raise sweet corn to sell on the roadside. It is good to see it growing despite the cold wet spring. The heat over the past week has helped a lot.

Wordless Wednesday

It is still plenty cold and wet. We have not been able to get any spring planting done yet.

Third Crop Hay

This photo was taken on 09/22/10. As of 09/28/10 we finished baling hay for the year. We had a late start on hay this spring and are still behind. With the days getting shorter and the nights extremely cooler third crop hay can be hard to get dried down to below 20% moisture needed to bale high quality hay. Usually when baling larger bales it is important to keep the moisture below 16% but we purchased a preservative unit a few years ago that sprays a buffered acid on the hay and allows us to bale with more moisture. We purchase at least one 270 gallon tote every year at the ever increasing price of $2300.