January 30th...

Finally getting caught up on all my office projects and updating our blog was on my list. Where has the time gone? I always think I will have plenty of time in the winter months, yet I find things are as busy now as they are any other time of the year. The holidays have come and gone and once again we've rolled the calendar into January. We have spent most of January either inside working on year end books, attending a meeting or driving a semi hauling grain from our bins to multiple locations. The weather has been challenging with a one-time snow event of 13-14" after the first of the year. Since then the daily temperatures have ranged anywhere from 55 to now a balmy -10 degrees. We had hoped we would get a February window to apply the anhydrous ammonia we typically get applied in the fall, but that doesn't seem likely given the current forecast as we sit on January 30th. I'm sure the weather will soon change though and we will be pulling the planters out of the shed and preparing them to plant another crop. 

Unbelievably we were able to get back in the field to perform fieldwork the day after Christmas. We applied our first and only Anhydrous Ammonia of 2018 that day. We also got all the corn stalks worked under on our Williamsville farm. Rain that evening followed by multiple snows, rains and frozen ground have kept us from performing anymore fieldwork since Dec. 26th.

Loading another truckload of Century (nonGMO) corn to be delivered to Cargill in Beardstown.

Washing the Peterbilt semi after hauling corn to the elevator in Beardstown. We like to wash the trucks soon after we are done hauling to get rid of the salt and cinders they spread on the road to melt the ice and snow.

Max, Owen and Rally enjoying our largest snowfall this winter.