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Sugar Beet Harvest Video
Hi everyone! We successfully finished our sugar beet harvest and went to Colorado to help my husband's family finish their sugar beet harvest. I am in the process of putting together our harvest video, but did finish the video from their harvest and wanted...
Alfalfa Seed Harvest
I am happy to report the 2015 alfalfa seed harvest is complete! We actually finished the end of September, but have been busy with beet harvest. Overall, the harvest went pretty smoothly. The weather the last couple of years slowed down our harvest, but...
Alfalfa Seed Production- Spring Seeded
Now that we are finished harvesting the barley, I wanted to do an up-to-date post on our alfalfa seed we planted this spring. It is very similar to our established alfalfa seed, but requires a few extra steps in the spring. We started off by using our no-till drill...
Still Barley Harvest
I am happy to say that we are almost done with barley harvest! We have just a little over 100 acres left. If our equipment and the weather would cooperate, that would only be another day and a half. However, it is raining at the moment so we will just see how it...
Barley Harvest
My favorite time of year has arrived...barley harvest! I love harvest because we get to see all of our hard work pay off. My son loves it because he loves riding in the combine with me. The barley is dried down and ready to be taken to the elevator. The barley is...
Sugar Beet Production
Sugar Beets We produce sugar beets which are processed into….you guessed it, sugar. While the main goal for sugar beets is sugar, other parts of the sugar beet may be used as livestock feed. This could be the sugar beet leaves saved at beet harvest, or beet pulp...
Malt Barley Production
Our barley is grown for malting. The malted barley is then used to make things such as beer, candy, and some other foods and beverages. This year, over half of our acres are planted to barley, and our custom farming acres are barley also. That means we have over...
Alfalfa Seed Production- Established Fields
Alfalfa seed is my favorite crop to grow. It seems there is so much that goes into it, and always so much to learn about growing it. This year, we have some established alfalfa seed fields, and some spring seeded alfalfa seed fields. This post...
