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Wayne Schoper
This harvest season has been a very unusual one. We had a very cool month of July that slowed crop development way down to the point that we had to worry about frost damaging the crop before it reached maturity. Fortunately, we managed to avoid that scenario with most of our corn and soybeans and they reached maturity before the first killing frost. The month of October was a very different story. We had a lot of wet weather that slowed harvest to a standstill. On top of that, the corn and soybeans did not have a chance to go through their normal dry down process so that they went into this cool wet period with very high moisture levels. In recent years we have been very fortunate to have early crop maturation with much of the corn and soybeans mature by the first week of September and dry enough to harvest shortly after. In fact, we have not had to dry soybeans for many years up until this yea.
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My sister was giving me a hard time the other day.
I guess the price of milk is sky-high in the grocery store. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea how much a gallon of milk costs in the stor.
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Every cropping year is different and this year is no exception. The phenomenon we are seeing this year in area corn fields is the growth of a gray to black colored mold on the ears of corn as the plants stand in the field waiting to be harvested.
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I am not sure how other families operate, but here in the House of Hoffman, if you’re not pulling your weight, you can bet we will let you know.
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Being married to a farmer has taught me quite a few lessons.
First, and foremost, even if you have a fairly significant event in 20 minutes and your husband’s favorite cow is calving, the cow takes priorit.
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We are in a situation this fall where we need to do some extra drying of the corn and soybean crop in order to store the crop over the winter months. Hopefully we will be wrapping up the soybean harvest this week and heading full-force into the corn.
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