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It's Paul's birthday today. It's hard to describe our gratitiude for his patience, teaching, encouragement, and trust. So we baked him a cake and made pizza with the wheat we grow, and had dinner together like the family we've become.

We don’t generally endorse cultivation videos, as they tend to coincide with iron blight, but today has been a beautiful, if sweltering day, and we’re finally tucking the organic seed corn in for the year. After a very challenging wet spring, we finally got the field planted the first week of June. One blind cultivation, two rotary hoeings, a tine weeding pass, and three cultivations later, we’ve done all we can. Soon, the corn will be too tall for us to drive through, and the canopy will close. Raising organic corn is always a labor of love, but this year in particular it has been a slog. Somehow, things are looking ok... Cautious optimism abounds!

Doing what we can to keep the view interesting for the planes flying overhead. A generation or two ago this kind of soil conservation strategy was common in Wisconsin. Now, more and more contours are removed every year, and even on no-till farmland, the land suffers. #conservationfarming #contourfarming #dankorye

Grain’s eye view. Our Lang hard red spring wheat is looking pretty nice! Some signs of disease are present, but lower than expected with all this rain. Plants look healthy, flowering is in the rear-view, and the new alfalfa seeding is looking great. This tine weeder is a game changer on spring grain weed control. Hopefully we’ll have a lot more grain in the bin later this summer, after 2018’s dismal yields. 🤞🌾🤞

Henry’s out making sure the rye is ready for the field day tomorrow, and we’re hustling to keep killing weeds, moving cows, raking hay, and spiffing this place up!
As is customary for this year, there’s a 40% chance of scattered thunderstorms on the forecast, but we’ve got plenty of space to camp out under cover if something blows through.
Should be a great day, packed with good conversation and lots of grain!

Plant 2019 is in the books after getting the dry beans in the ground yesterday. There was a lot more of Plans B, C, and D than we ever would have imagined, with this crazy wet spring, but we feel we made the best of the hand we were dealt, for the most part. Now we can focus on cleaning bins, killing weeds, making hay, working on harvest machinery, grazing cows, mill planning, child raising, and getting ready for the field day on Sunday! What a life!

#eternaloptimism #worthit #completelynuts

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