Cute Chicks

Corn planting is way behind in the Midwest this year, because of the cold, wet spring we are experiencing. The fields did dry out enough this week that we were able to plant two days. We now have about 30% of our corn planted. The rain today will put us out of the field until next week. I think we have the new planter set right and I am getting comfortable operating it, so when we do get a long stretch back in the field we should be able to cover a lot of ground. We have one field that we are still waiting on a contractor to repair some breaks in a large drainage tile. We hope to get them repaired so that we don't have to farm around sink holes all year.

One annual sign of spring here on the farm is the arrival of a new batch of baby chicks. They arrived Thursday morning and seem to have acclimated rather well to our old barn. I counted 32 of them - but it's hard to count them because they don't stand still long enough!