We finished harvest today. It was an amazing harvest season, almost entirely free of mechanical troubles.

At Zumbrun Farms we take safety seriously as evidenced by the photo below. In case you can’t tell what that is, it’s a board I cut to hold the clutch down on the tractor we use to run the auger to unload corn.

Picking corn today. These rows are a half mile long.

I found this radish today while wandering around in the corn field. It weighs in at 9 pounds, and it broke off at the ground (Lana drove the combine over it) so there’s even more of it still in the ground.

I was working on the corn dryer this fall. We were in the middle of corn harvest, pedal to the metal, corn everywhere, and the doggone corn dryer wouldn’t light.

(In nature) The soil is always protected from the direct action of sun, rain, and wind. In this care of soil strict economy is the watchword: