The word for the week was "wet..." Inches of rain came down this week and many of our farms now have ponds on them. It has been over a week since we have harvested or done any tillage. Our latest projects have been hauling dry corn out of grain bins to the river to make room for the next round of corn to be harvested and transferring corn from bins with dryers to other bins that have only fans.
Dad, Bob & David have also been working on our latest project to tackle the tornado corn. We decided to add an eight-row corn head to our fleet and install Roll-a-cones across the entire head in hopes that the spiraling tubes would throw the corn stalks up and give the snapping rolls more time to drag them down. We also think this will better handle the "matt" of wet corn stalks laying on the ground and help feed them up through the corn head. We are anxious to try it out, but it will be at least next week as the forecast is calling for better and drier weather...
