Tile, tile and more tile seems to be what we've been up to on the farm lately. It has been an exceptional winter to install tile due to the dry ground conditions and milder weather. We have completed several projects and are set to begin another major project outside of Ashland on our "Whisnat Farm." On this project we will be installing 15" tile to not only help drain our excess water, but also collect the water "above" our fields from the neighbors to our North and get all that water collectively under ground and not running on top of the waterway.
We have also been moving grain from our bins to end users in Decatur, the Illinois River in Beardstown and also the rail shuttle in nearby Jacksonville that ships corn into Mexico. When the weather has been nasty or all the grain deliveries have been completed for the month the guys have been working on projects in the shop. They completely rebuilt the hitch on our John Deere roadside and waterway mower as well as went through it and made sure it was ready to be used this summer. They also made a rear end seal repair to the Farmall 35hp utility tractor as well as putting the finishing touches on our new mobile fertilizer pump stand. We've also taken delivery of quite a bit of the seed corn we will be planting in just a few short months.
We have been blessed with a few inches of recent rainfall and now extreme cold temperatures are on the way. Those two combined together should give Mother Nature a nice recipe to freeze and thaw the soil in the fields which typically provides us a beautiful seed bed similar to a garden come spring.
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| Installing 40 acres of tile on the wettest portion of our Williamsville farm. |
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| Laying out 15" Dual Wall Plastic pipe for our next tile project. |
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| Down to the sweep auger in one of our corn bins. |
