Day 1 of small plot canola harvest

First wheatgrass planting for 2025 Plot plan drawn by hand, that’s a first 😰 Seeding deeper (~1-1.5”) and using turface mixed with seed to get better seed flow for small plots. We’ll see how/if it comes up Packed afterwards

Winter peas no till drilled into wheat stubble today

Kernza into some weeds that got the burn down last week

Farmers: they’re not making any more land Me: they’re not making any more Carter forage harvesters The strategy is the same. Buy and hold, never sell

Soil probing on a hot September day (not as hot as car thermometer reading)

Rust in fuel tank ✅ Gas in engine oil ✅ Won’t start without starter fluid ✅ But it runs 🤌

Waiting for the soil to dry and then prepped so we can plant!

What a difference an afternoon can make Winter canola variety trial for winter survivability in MN

Running anti static sheets through the seed tubes before planting 🤷‍♂️ winter camelina

Winter peas into soybean stubble in Becker MN today

Mungbean desiccation fail 5 days after treatment Looking for something that’d work better than glyphosate (which we tried last year and didn’t work well). Right now hand harvest looks like best option 🤷‍♂️

The bread clips I ordered arrived in a bag that was bread clipped…feels right

Check planting, kinda Wheatgrass nursery

Perennial wheat plots looking good 😎

Corn harvest method testing for trials next year

I cronch the midnight short corn

Barrels and Pyramids When you see this barrel (displaying Liebig’s Law of the Minimum) or maybe even a pyramid showing what matters most, remember this about Liebig: • Liebig “conceded that chemistry alone could not increase yields. Agricultural science would depend as much on