Delay

Because we doubled the number of hogs we are feeding last year, we are also feeding twice as many bushels of corn. Our old grain handling system became very inefficient and undersized. In March, we ordered a new grain bin, grain leg, and bought a used dryer. We made the down payment the first week of April, and our dealer told us the factory gave him a July 16 shipping date. Plenty of time to get it built before harvest.

In August, the dealer told us the leg still hadn't come in, and the company and factory personnel couldn't give him a ship date. The grain bin came and was built, as well as the used dryer was installed. We can't use the dryer or fill the new bin without the leg.


We learn patience.


On September 13, the leg finally arrives on our farm. The crew starts work immediately, but it is a tall leg and will take some time to assemble, erect, tie down, and place spouts. By now corn harvest is half over in our area.


Tomorrow, October 4th, we think the grain system will be finished and ready to receive corn. Our cornfields are the only unharvested fields in the neighborhood. The corn is so dry that we won't even need to run it through the dryer. And we are currently combining soybeans so it could be another week before we switch back to corn. Our corn fields will be the only corn standing in the county!

The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 28:8