How Great The Yield From A Fertile Field

Random musings from an old farmer about life, agriculture, and faith

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Bankrupt

I played John Deere Monopoly with my family tonight. I was the first one to go bankrupt! I wander what that says about my farming financial abilities?

We broke a spindle on our DMI field cultivator on Monday.
--DMI tillage tools are very popular in our area.
--Our field cultivator was manufactured 8 miles from our farm.
--There are several local dealers of DMI equipment (now a part of CaseIH).
You would think that someone would keep parts in stock or there would be some quickly available. But no, we had to order and then wait two days for it to be shipped in.
Never the less, we were able to plant all the corn we intended to plant until we received rain. We had tilled two fields early that had dried out too much to plant, so the rain that moved in for the weekend was very welcome. Once we can get back in the field, we should be able to finish corn planting in a couple days.

The early sweet corn is up in the garden and the first planted field corn is starting to emerge.

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Genesis 2:5

3 Comments:

At 1:09 PM, Blogger Jenny said...

We can play JD Monopoly next time we're over... I'm sure I won't be any good at it...

 
At 5:14 PM, Blogger Old Farmer said...

I thought it was very scary the way he kept mortgaging property to buy more...but then Matt won the game by doing the same thing...I'm way too timid for Monopoly.
Mom

 
At 2:50 PM, Blogger Jenny said...

so when do we get to see the vindicating redecorating post? and pictures of the new porch railing and columns?

 

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