Grateful and Thankful As We Wrap Up 2025 Crop Season
Harvest season is wrapping up, and crops are quickly coming out of the fields. Before we know it, it will be time to select next year’s seed choices, prepay for crop inputs for 2025, and start the party all over again!
At our acreage, the girls got their fair calves for next year. They are cute little fur balls! Feels nice to have outside chores again for them to do.
The Fall Crop Hustle
Right on cue the October winds picked up. We forgot how enjoyable it was without it but it’s helping dry the corn out even more so using less dryer costs. The moisture in the corn has been running between 17-19% and everyone has been very pleased with the yields!
Currently, our camp is picking corn like crazy. The weather and equipment have been cooperating…for the most part, but I’d hate to jinx it. The crew has had a little combine trouble but was thankful for a backup and amazing people to work with who made the switch as seamless as possible, making less headaches for the crew overall. Otherwise, it’s been minor parts on augers and such that they all make it look easy.
My primary role is providing meals at night and Ubering people or equipment from one field to the next in between shuffling kids to their activities. I enjoy my little involvement and am grateful for those that take it for the team to stay in the cabs for long hours at a time. Again, grateful for another farmwife as part of the operation that we tag team these duties! It takes teamwork!
Hog Happenings
While our harvesting crew is occupied with corn, our pumpers are hauling manure from the hog sites and applying it to our fields that will be planted to corn next year, as fall fertilizer. Check out my Instagram reel for some footage and more details on the what, where, why we pump manure from the hog building pits and inject into the soil.
This is my last blog update with Stockyards Ag Experience, I’m grateful for the opportunity they provided our operation to share our story with other farm and ranchers. If you’d like to stay in contact, I’d love to connect on Instagram and your can follow my podcast, Harvesting Her Way where I feature some of your South Dakota native ladies, Calli Williams and Kristin Harms as co-hosts during our Ag Wives Series. It’s been a blast!