Melting snow+rain=mud

It's raining outside right now...surprise, surprise. Just an FYI here, we got a lot of snow this weekend and when that snow melts it turns into water. There's a lot of snow out there, a whole lot. We're going to have a whole lot of water in about, um, two hours. Shoot. Normally we plant corn and beans in the spring, looks like we might be planting in the fall this year...if it dries out by then. If that happens we'll be harvesting crops in the spring, kind of like some guys are doing this year. Below are some pictures. If at all possible try to avoid these situations. If you get stuck in these situations don't post the pictures online. If you do I'll find them and make fun of you.

One option for fixing the issue of getting stuck would be to invent a tractor with pontoons on it...this guy had a descent idea. To bad it wasn't any good.

This guy wins the "Where the Heck Were You Going" award. My advice to you; don't drive your tractor into a mud hole, you're going to get stuck.

And finally if you must cut beans in the spring avoid places that have standing water unless you have two bulldozers in front pulling, or just put in some tile there champ.

You know you're a farm kid if...

So we had some speakers come to the farm from AgMax today. We all liked them because they gave us pens, chip clips, and leather gloves, and of course a quality presentation about GRP and GRIP insurance policies.

It was like Christmas in here when the gloves were handed out. Everyone unwrapped their brand new gloves and tried them on. Grown men grinned and giggled; only in a class full of farm kids.

You know you're a farm kid if you get more excited about a new pair of leather gloves than a new dress shirt.

Want a chopper?

Remember when we were six years old and we all played with little toy tractors?...some of you may still play with little toy tractors. If this is you and you're not married yet, put the tractors in a box and don't get them out again until you have kids, let them play with them until they're six, then take them away so they don't end up unmarried and playing with tractors at age 32, like you.

Anyway...that said, a couple custom committees ago the determination was made that chopping wasn't making us money so they axed it. Good call. We've still got the chopper. Custom committee decided to sell it. Good call again. If you want to buy it, it can be yours, for a fee of course. Talk to Greg, he can hook you up with a chopper.

Custom committee decided to cut up an old silage wagon and sell it for scrap metal. They figured the wagon was worth more in scrap metal than they would get selling it. The class 100% backed their decision.