These soybeans are all dried up and ready to be cut. You can see the fuzz still on the pods but if you grab one, the fuzz will come off and the pod is likely to spill the beans~sorry couldn't help myself :)
A good look at the field from the front of the combine. To the left are the rows already cut and to the right are the rows Chris is working on. These were irrigated beans and made about 73 bushels per acre.
And this is what a whole trailer full of beans looks like. This load is ready for the trip to the elevator.
We are almost done with the soybean harvest here, had it not been for a welcome little vacation due to a good amount (almost three inches here) of much needed rain we would be on to the corn already. However we also had multiple fires in the area last week because of the hot, dry and very windy conditions so we just smiled and enjoyed it when the drops started falling. Praise the Lord for all of the dedicated firefighters and volunteers that saved as much as they did, it was really amazing!
We were also blessed with a welcome chore last week! One of the fall calving cows had a set of twins so the whole family has taken turns bottle feeding the little guy pictured below. Twins are fairly common in cows and many cows have to have help to feed both of them. This calf was the smaller of the two so he got to come to the barn and be bottle fed until we have another cow to put him on. I have to say this is one of my favorite farm activities and it is never complained about by our girls either :)
He is a fiesty little bull calf, and both girls were a little surprised by his sucking and head butting strength already, this picture was taken when he was just four days old.
Up close, such a cute little guy! Hard to believe he will be almost full grown by this time next year.
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