Eric

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” ~ Albert Einstein #Agronomy

Welcome to the Antiques Roadshow.

It’s a start anyway. 🌽

It’s insurance season…I feel violated. 😡

Bearing supports done so the JD 643 can run off the IH 1460 feeder house. At this pace I’ll be ready to pick corn by New Year’s Eve.

Sure hope I don’t need to do any reseeding.

Guess it’s time to make one of these functional.

Took a quick weekend trip to the mountains (850 mile round trip). Realized two things during the drive. 1. Most grade school kids these days have been on more vacations than I have. 2. If the average person works 90K hours in a lifetime, I should have retired at 47.

I don’t like winter much. That said, I’m ready for the snow to fly and some garage therapy on a dirty, rusty Duster.

Time for some fallow farming.

Coffee out of my 15 year old coffeemaker in a 36 year old cup in a 108 year old house that was last updated 41 years ago. #livewithinyourmeans

Over 20 years ago I sat down with a software developer in a Waffle House in SC and helped him take a records keeping software and make it a powerful field scouting tool. I’ve been a client of the same soil lab for over 30 years. Both have sold in the last year. Damn I’m old.

That’s a croc…(pun fully intended) 😝

Unpopular opinion….AI is most beneficial to those who neither want to learn nor teach.

Combine technology has come a long way. That said, you could buy 25-30 of my 1460’s for even the used price of that 7250.

Visited with an old friend today and we got on the topic of how things are different now than they were 30 years ago. We decided that the biggest change is that contentment and gratitude had been replaced by greed and entitlement. No one has enough. Nobody can do enough for them.

When it’s quitting time at your day job and there’s #soilsampling to be done.

Biological control for Palmar? Webworms are hammering it in this field.

I think fuel and fertilizer cost are high but I must be wrong. The number of people driving 15+ mph over the speed limit makes me think fuel is cheap. The number of people fertilizing wheat acres without soil samples must mean fertilizer is cheap too.

Filling fertilizer every 7 acres while planting this spring was a pain in the ass. Maybe next year I can go a full 14 acres!! 😂