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Keith says, “I thought I’d share that we started picking on your farm late yesterday afternoon. It seems like really good corn so far! It is also coming out really dry, I think one load I hauled...

Keith wrote that it’s been really hot and dry, and they’ve had almost no breaks from irrigation, but the crops that have been getting water look pretty good. Luckily we have a very high...

Keith shared some cool videos with us a couple of days ago while he was “applying fungicide, insecticide, molasses, and a foliar fertilizer” to the soybeans. Molasses? Yes, “it helps...

Dad passed away unexpectedly yesterday, March 4. He was a thoughtful, funny, healthy, and active 97 years young. We loved him so much. The last thing he said on the phone that evening to Jeff was that...

(Written while listening to Supertramp) I looked over at my Romeo. How about we make a picture show? Let’s take the long way home. A corona-free drive home. We’ll have some times when we...

(Part 2 of Drive out to the Farm) A few days after we arrived in Nebraska, the silks started emerging from the small ears. And tassels started appearing at the top of the stalks.

Jeff and I decided to take a drive out to the farm. Along the way, we saw some beautiful red rocks. And a pretty college campus.

Why can’t you stay up until the cows come home? Because it’s pasture bedtime! That’s udderly ridiculous; of course you can stay up. But we went to bed early because Dad gets us up at...

It’s harvest time! I rode in the grain cart with Keith and Dad rode with Keith’s dad Larry as they picked the last of the white corn on October 26. The monitoring screens in the combine...

The house and lawn have come a long way in the past two years. Dad and my brother Jeff have fertilized the lawn regularly, and I planted small bushes including Goldflame Spirea around the house. Dad...

A “bomb cyclone” caused huge flooding in Nebraska. Our area faired pretty well, but 10 miles north of us was hit hard. Keith says, “Columbus is a mess from what I’ve heard and...

Keith is harvesting the soybeans today! He says, “They actually aren’t too bad considering what they have been through. They still might actually make 80bu an acre.”

A hail and wind storm hit on August 6, the night before I arrived. The main path of the storm traveled from the northwest to the southeast, completely totaling farms in it’s path. About 1.5...

Keith got a drone! He says, “We got the end gun fixed this afternoon. I’m still waiting on the pivot dealer to come fix the leak in the middle but it will run how it is for now. In other...

The harvest of 2017 - see the full youtube playlist.

Woo hooo, the August 21, 2017 total eclipse went right through our town. We walked from Dad’s house to the Platte River bridge on Dark Island Trail to experience totality. OMG IT WAS AMAZING.

We pulled out the old overgrown bushes, added dirt and rock around the house, upgraded the sprinkler irrigation system, pulled out the old broken cement porches and sidewalks, poured new sidewalks and...

Experience a ride through a field of soybeans, and music- and technology-enhanced farming. The song is “Came here to forget” by Blake Shelton. (Ya, the last lyric was “That first...

Keith ordered some iron, and he and his dad built a replacement shed for the south well. Before building, we talked about colors and decided red with white trim would be cute. (Red is the Swedish...

Keith says: “I’m thrilled with how great the soybeans look, I hope the do as well as last years beans did. The north end is getting a little bit of iron Clorosis, but I knew that was a...

Keith says, “Everything is looking great so far. I got the nitrogen on yesterday, just in time too. It was just starting to get a yellow look to it. All the rain and wet weather has been hard on...

Keith sent some pictures, and says “The corn around here looked pretty rough last week due to the cold weather and lack of sun shine, but the weather has turned around and the corn has its green...

Keith shares some of his plans for crops next year: “I talked to the neighbors on the east side of the farm it sounds like they are not planting enogen corn around there. This is good news...

Loved my first ride in the combine, and learning about all the technology they use. These machines are so sophisticated! The heads push the crops toward a cutter, and then the cobs are conveyed to a...

With our farmer, Keith, “helping” harvest 25 acres.

Keith got done picking corn on the farm today. He says, “It was really good (244bu/ac) and really dry (15% moisture). I’m glad we got it out when we did because it was starting to fall in...

Courtney, who (with her husband) rents our house, shared some photos with me from her mom’s photo album from 1949! Small world: Courtney is the great granddaughter of Alfred Kohtz, who Dad...

Jeff inspects the first planting. It’s a decent stand.

Mom passed away on Sunday after a battle with cancer. For the last 40 years of her life, she managed the farm featured in this blog (which she and Dad bought together in 1963), in addition to being a...