Corn Update

Corn on the home place as of May 28th. By August this will be twelve feet tall or more. You know the old saying about knee-high on the fourth of July? If all goes well I expect this field to be chest-high by the fourth of July. I'll keep you updated. 

Looks Like Jake is Ready for Summer

This is another old picture. Taken June 12 last year but I never posted it. I would say our corn was this tall around June 27 this year. Last year the corn got an early start thanks to a warm spring. This year it is behind due to the cold spring. The norm for our area is somewhere inbetween. Jake, by the way, came up with the title for this post when I took the picture last year. Jake is Always ready for summer.

New corn photos are forthecoming.

* Note: This is a completely untouched photo taken with my old Sony Ericsson phone.

Wide Awake at 3AM

Sleepless night. In response to comments on this article I wrote the following:

The notion that trade liberalization will lower food costs in developing nations is based, in large part, on the assumption that those nations have the resources, particularly water, to increase food production. The fact is that many developing nations DO NOT have the water resources to make significant increases in food production and therefore must import food from nations who do have those resources.
Many of the people posting comments here seem to have a good grasp of economic theory but no understanding of agriculture whatsoever. China, India, and the United States are the worlds biggest grain producers because of geography, not because of government subsidies. All the economic theory in the world is not going to help a sub-Saharan farmer grow more grain if he has the wrong soil, the wrong climate, and insufficient water to do so.

Corn Seed

Corn chopping started Monday. I haven't taken any pictures so I thought I would substitute this picture I took in the shop after we finished planting corn this spring. Each of those bags contained enough seed to plant 2.22 acres at a rate of 36,000 plants per acre. I'll let you do the math yourself. There are enough bags there to plant about 28 million plants. So far this week we have chopped about 8.6 million corn plants into silage


Never did get any silage pics this year. Here are some pics from last season.

Another Sky Photo

From April 23. I took this picture while I was preparing corn ground. We should start harvesting this weekend. Pictures will follow.

Jacob in Corn Field - Corn Series

Jacob in Corn Field, originally uploaded by thejesse.

This picture was taken in the last field we planted this year.

This also marks my first attempt to blog from my phone via flickr.com.



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Sent using a Sony Ericsson mobile phone.