Post by 70ds on Jan 11, 2009 20:51:37 GMT -5
It is business as usual at the farm. The weather has been pretty mild for January so far. They have brought home the heifers and they could be having some calves within a couple of weeks. James from Minkler Farms brought the grinder over to grind hay for them. They fed bales for a couple of days until they could get some hay ground. They couldn't grind because it was a windy week. If it is too windy it all blows away. They use both the loader tractors to keep up with the Mighty Giant. Mike runs the MX and Don runs the 4320.
When they got done grinding Mike loaded up the chuck wagon and went to feed.
For those of you that are unfamiliar with how we do stuff here in Kansas, we feed ground hay out in the pastures in inside out tractor tires.(I have tried but apparently you can't turn toy tires inside out :
They have also been top dressing their wheat with nitrogen. Don went to spread while Mike was feeding. They take their truck into the coop to get the fertilizer then they auger it onto the spreader at the yard. Here is Don loading up.
He is loaded and rolling out to the field.
Here he is spreading. They run gps now and they are thinking about adding auto steer to the 1270 because it does all of the spraying and fertilizer spreading.
When Mike got done feeding he started hauling hay. Needed to stock back up so they would be ready to grind next time. Here he is with the first load.
Unloading.
They stack their bales up in their hay yard because it is not very big and they don't have a lot of room. The whole load is stacked now. Time to go get more.
That is all for now. Questions and comments welcome.
On another note. I finally bought some trees to add more detail to my display. I have been looking for something that looked like cedar trees to make a shelterbelt. These are as close as I could get. It is pretty common to have a shelterbelt running along the farmyard to protect from the wind in this area. The trees are not real tall so they resemble a young shelterbelt. That is probably 10 or 15 years old. They are various heights because it seems like about half of them die when you plant them, even thought the grow like weeds where you don't want them to.
When they got done grinding Mike loaded up the chuck wagon and went to feed.
For those of you that are unfamiliar with how we do stuff here in Kansas, we feed ground hay out in the pastures in inside out tractor tires.(I have tried but apparently you can't turn toy tires inside out :
They have also been top dressing their wheat with nitrogen. Don went to spread while Mike was feeding. They take their truck into the coop to get the fertilizer then they auger it onto the spreader at the yard. Here is Don loading up.
He is loaded and rolling out to the field.
Here he is spreading. They run gps now and they are thinking about adding auto steer to the 1270 because it does all of the spraying and fertilizer spreading.
When Mike got done feeding he started hauling hay. Needed to stock back up so they would be ready to grind next time. Here he is with the first load.
Unloading.
They stack their bales up in their hay yard because it is not very big and they don't have a lot of room. The whole load is stacked now. Time to go get more.
That is all for now. Questions and comments welcome.
On another note. I finally bought some trees to add more detail to my display. I have been looking for something that looked like cedar trees to make a shelterbelt. These are as close as I could get. It is pretty common to have a shelterbelt running along the farmyard to protect from the wind in this area. The trees are not real tall so they resemble a young shelterbelt. That is probably 10 or 15 years old. They are various heights because it seems like about half of them die when you plant them, even thought the grow like weeds where you don't want them to.
