{"id":4988,"date":"2014-04-10T19:19:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T23:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2014-04-10T19:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T23:19:21","slug":"keep-on-truckin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4988","title":{"rendered":"Keep On Truckin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We like to get our grain bins emptied before planting season.  Once we get started planting it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Plus it&#8217;s a lot more pleasant to shovel corn when it&#8217;s 50 degrees rather than when it&#8217;s 80.<\/p>\n<p>So the last few weeks have been a stream of days of loading the truck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4989\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_101608_527.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_101608_527-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Filling the Truck\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_101608_527-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_101608_527-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_101608_527.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filling the Truck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And driving to the elevator to unload it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4990\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_104145_484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_104145_484-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Terry&#039;s Grain Emporium\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_104145_484-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_104145_484-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_20140410_104145_484.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry&#8217;s Grain Emporium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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&#8217;s a lot of corn they have to move before this fall!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:40px;font-style:italic\">The farmer&#8217;s labor is a treadmill<br \/>All round the year he treads in his own tracks.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left:60px;\">&#8211; Virgil, The Georgics<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like to get our grain bins emptied before planting season. Once we get started planting it&#8217;s mid-June at least until we come up for air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}