2013 Harvest is DONE.

Harvest is officially OVER! Now we are busy with spreading fertilizer, tillage and cleaning up equipment. We were granted some really nice weather this week but as we all know that could/will soon end so keeping on with it until then!

2013 Harvest

2013 Harvest is full on now...or was I should say. Beets got going just in time for the latest rain event which has now slowed us down hopefully just a day or two.

 

 

 

 

The combines have been running in soybeans as well, once the rain hit it's been a slow challenge and now we are switching over to corn for a few days while things dry up.

Got a start on corn before a days rain delay.

Hopefully easier harvest days are on the horizon!

Little bit of what's been going on around here

Here are a few pictures of what's been going on around here lately. Lot of spraying, in a late planting year seems like all the spraying going on at the same time. Still touching up some soybean sprays as well as sugarbeets.

 

 

 

We are also working on the yard once again. Took down an old shed and are working on leveling off where it sat to the front of the new shop.

 

Next up will be wheat harvest, thinking about 10 days away from staring that. All the crops are looking good!

 

 

Spring 2013 Finally Arrived

It took awhile but spring is finally here. After a few good weeks of planting we now are down to only having soybeans left to put in the ground.

 

 

Planting beets

Planting Corn

KTM Farm in the Winter

An evening fly over courtesy of Grant Anderson

It never ends..

With harvest ending so early in October this fall gave way to be more productive preparing for 2013 crop as well as getting some work done in the yard.

With the forgiving weather we were able to get fertilizer spread.



 

 As well as all the ground got worked...

Some days tillage maintenance is more extensive than others.
 

 Once the field work was in good shape it was time to get to work on the yard. We had planned to move the old shop across the yard to be used as the agronomy shed which will hold our chemical, fill water trucks, etc. The pad was prepared and poured..

 

 

Once the pad for the old shop was ready we wanted to get the yard raised a bit more to be level with the shop...it's a labor intensive process hauling in clay, spreading fabric, gravel, and leveling it all.

It is raised up now level to the shop, this is the slope it was when we started.

 

 

 Once the yard was ready it was time to move the old shop...with the weather forcast set to change the crew came in and had it moved the same day while it was snowing.

New home!

 

Makes the front of the shop look quite different now

 

 

There is still more work to be done in the yard and we will raise the front of the shop where the old shop sat so everything is level but think it will have to wait as now winter is upon us. More progress outside in the yard will be made next year, we are looking forward to having a central agronomy hub  in the old shop ready for use this spring. For now it will be winter projects..including the blog master to study the camera manual to take better pictures especially in the North Dakota lack of quality light (some of these are a bit dark).

 

 

2012 Havest is complete

The 2012 havest is officially complete! Everything went smooth and we were able to start and finish quite early this year. Have a little bit of fertilizer to spread, ditching and some tillage to complete and field work should be in good shape.

We begin with soybean harvest, can see how dry it is with all the dust.

 

Then moved right on to corn harvest, again dust. Grain was dry as well!

 

 

Sugar beet harvest went along the same time as corn...a few heat shut downs then followed with some freeze shut downs things went a bit slow at times because of that yet went smooth and had a good quality crop to harvest.

 

 

 

We completed harvest last weekend with corn finishing up on Saturday night then beets Sunday.

 



Once all harvest equipment is parked it's on to the wash bay.

 

 

 



Another successful harvest season on the books....until next year!