Category: farm updates

August 3, 2015

August 3rd, 2015

Hi Everyone! I usually like to keep these posts “farm-focused” to keep you up to date on farm happenings. This time I want to be a little selfish, sort of. Maybe I’m bragging a little, sort of. I hope though, that what you get out of this one is a little taste of how much […]

Don Lamb

July 18, 2015

July 18th, 2015

I always like to stay positive about farming, but I also want to give you a realistic picture of what we are dealing with this year. This has been a year like no other…I know, there are no “normal” years, but this one is pretty extreme. We got another .8 inches of rain at the […]

Don Lamb

June 2, 2015

June 1, 2015

Done! We are done planting (at least the first time)! We actually finished on Friday, the 29th of May. It seems much better to be done in May than June. We had a great run starting on Friday the 22nd and were able to plant straight through until the next Friday…what a difference a week […]

Don Lamb

May 18, 2015

May 17th, 2015

We have enjoyed a nice Sunday off here at the farm. There are times when the weather is nice and the work is plentiful that we are tempted to just go out and do something. This was not one of those Sundays. We are tired of trying to force something to be dry enough to […]

Don Lamb

May 11, 2015

Another Monday, another rainy week. We did get to work limitedly on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We are just 17% done planting overall (19% on corn). We keep doing any maintenance we can think of to keep the machinery in ready mode. Today, the guys are working on making some improvements to our anhydrous ammonia […]

Don Lamb

May 7, 2015

Happy Spring! I mean summer? It feels like we skipped from winter to summer here on the farm. A week ago, we were just starting to get soil temperatures where they were right for planting and now we seem to be getting consistent 75 degree temperatures. The big story for us has been rain. We […]

Don Lamb

January 23, 2015

January 23rd, 2015

Happy Friday! It has been another good week here at the farm. Lots of good stuff. We are thankful that it has been a mild week but that means we haven’t been able to spread much fertilizer of compost. The shop has been busy, the office has been busy and we’ve hauled a lot of […]

Don Lamb

January 16, 2015

January 16th, 2015

Happy Friday! Actually, it’s still Thursday night, but I’m advanced. We’ve had another good week on the farm. I sure appreciate our guys…they do a good job of getting things done, even if it is pretty cold outside. It’s been another week of quite a few meetings this week. Dean and I went to a […]

Don Lamb

January 9, 2015

January 9th, 2015

Happy Cold Friday! What do farmers do in the winter? I just thought I’d share a little journal this week to help answer the question that I always hear this time of year. It is meeting season. On Tuesday this week we had our weekly “Farm Management Meeting”. Dad, Dean, and I met with Dennis […]

Don Lamb

January 2, 2015

Happy New Year! It’s the first Friday of the new year here on the farm. One goal I have for the new year is to add some pretty consistent posts to the blog. We have all enjoyed a good Christmas and New Year’s season and are starting to get back in the swing of real […]

Don Lamb

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