Last year with the depressing drought I wished for the harvest to be plentiful and for the bins to overflow.
This year my wish was granted. The abundance of perfectly timed rain produced corn and soybeans that neared record yields for our farm.
There is not enough room in the grain bins to store the harvest and some had to be sold out of the field
That is a good problem.
Grain has to dry on the plant to a certain level of dryness. If the moisture level isn’t below a certain number it will spoil. To dry, dry weather and sunshine is needed. We’ve not had a lot of that…and once the grain has dried down and the farmers get started in the field then it rains and again they wait for it to dry.
While my husband and father-in-law wait, they don’t take time off – they catch up on work they might have let slide. Mechanic work, moving cattle around, planting winter crops… they’ve not sat idle.
If all goes as planned, today Lynn will finish the frenzy of fall work. It’s been almost two months of hectic farm work since we’ve spent much quality time with Lynn.
He is thankful for a good harvest, and the girls and I are thankful to have our farmer back.
Between Three Waters 