fall break

        Hey y'all! I hope everyone had a great week! We had fall break this week and I was lucky enough to get the chance to go home on Wednesday.  Since we had that cool snap come in earlier last week it really had me missing home. There is no greater feeling than coming home to the farm and seeing everything ahead of schedule and almost complete.
         I finally got to see the new hipper roller in action. I didn't think it would make that much of a difference in the moving of it or opperation of it clearly I underestimated the situation.  The hipper roller weighs so much that the tractor actually needs more weight added to the front of it to keep it held down when the hipper is not in the ground.  The fact that it weighs so much and rises up makes for one scary ride!  Daddy tried to warn me before we got on that it was going to do it but I had no clue it was going to raise up as much as it did.  I would guess that it would probably raise about 3 ft in the air every time maybe not that much but it sure felt like it.
        According to my dad it couldn't flip because the hipper would catch its self and push it back forward to the ground. It wasn't until this afternoon that I finally witnessed what was really going on from outside of the cab.  My dad was driving and turned off the blacktop road on to the turn row to enter the field.  As my dad was turning the tractor i saw it get off balanced  and rock backwards.  Obviously i freaked out and told daddy he needs to get that weight put on sooner rather than later since he almost gave me a heart attack, of course he just laughed since he knew what he was doing.  
     On a more positive note we have only 300 acres left to row up and its all sandy ground so that can be done anytime.  Its great news because that means we wont be working during gun season this year.  The deer are starting to move with the weather getting colder, i actually counted  17 just from my back yard and 4 of which were bucks. I cant wait until next week hopefully we will be completely done with the fieldwork for the year!

catching up

Hello everyone, its been a while since I have had time to post!  Back home at the farm we have finished the harvest and already pulled soil samples for this year.  We had to apply a little bit of lime to a few fields.  Almost all of our fields have been disked, sub soiled and ready to be rowed up and rolled. We had a half-inch rain this weekend it was the first rain in about 3 weeks.  This was very helpful with the dust that was literally covering everything since all the equipment had turned the dirt roads into a fine powder.  

We recently just purchased a new hipper roller that is designed to do twelve rows at a time, which is an upgrade from our eight row hipper roller. Unfortunately since it rained we didn't get to test it this weekend but once everything dries up we will get to. I hope that we can get all of our fall fieldwork done before the wet season sets in. The more work that is done now saves you in the spring so you can plant as soon as possible.

Back at home everyone around is beginning to start picking cotton since we don’t grow cotton anymore this is kind of a special time to me. Seeing everyone start picking reminds me of when I was little and would come home from school, run back out the door to go work with daddy.  My job was I got to spray the modules with our farm name and the number.  I didn't get to do very much but I always had fun and fell in love with the smell of the cotton being ready to harvest.   Not many people get the chance to be involved with farming like I did, it makes me very thankful that I got the opportunity to have such great childhood memories with it.