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.