We like to get our grain bins emptied before planting season. Once we get started planting it’s mid-June at least until we come up for air. By that time it can be getting hot and the grain in the bins is more likely to have spoilage issues.
Plus it’s a lot more pleasant to shovel corn when it’s 50 degrees rather than when it’s 80.
So the last few weeks have been a stream of days of loading the truck.
And driving to the elevator to unload it.
That covered white area in the foreground is one of two enormous piles of corn on the ground. Over 1.2 million bushels of corn in those piles. That’s a lot of corn they have to move before this fall!
We’ve got maybe 6 more semi-loads to go and then the bins will be empty, ready to fill again with wheat this summer, and corn and soybeans this fall.
All round the year he treads in his own tracks.
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