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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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Friday, September 16, 2022
Chopping Corn
September is corn harvest season in the Big Horn Basin. After 20 years or so of farming, my brother Luke has this system down pat. I'd say 75% of the corn raised around Worland is chopped into silage for feeding cattle.
Dad has been lending a hand at Luke's ever since he retired in 2015. From planting to harvesting and everything in between, Dad's ready to help.
You can hardly keep enough trucks under this self-propelled New Holland chopper. She chews corn up and spits it out.
Once the truck is full, they run it to the pile near the feed lot.
The packer tractor pushes it up the pile...
... and then drives back and forth on it packing it tight which preserves it for the winter.
Looks good to me.
Corn harvest is a fun time of year. The temperature is usually pleasant and you really get to see the fruits of your labor. Corn silage is an amazing feed, you get your protein and roughage all wrapped into one. God bless the farmer.
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Horsin' Around
With the horses running low on grass, we were keeping our eyes out for new pasture. Thankfully, I didn't even have to knock on any doors. Pat Hladky came to me one day and said he had about 5 acres by the Camplex that wasn't being used if I needed some. I said, I'll be out in the morning. Thanks Pat.
I've heard of horses that you could walk up to and catch in the pasture, but I've never had one. I don't mess around with my horses. If I want to catch them, I oat them into a corral and give them no other option than to go to work. It makes it easier on us all. Anyway, Pat's place didn't have a catch pen, so we had to build one. There was a shed already there that we winched closer and then closed it in.
Pat had some panels near by that we could use as well.
Once the shed was in place we connected it to the fence with the panels and closed the water inside it. The horses seem to dig it.
We'll just leave the gate open and let the kids come and go. Then when its time to go to work this'll be a safe space. So they think.
God always provides. And He usually does so through other people. I'm thankful for grass to get us through the fall. I'm also thankful to do a little winching. It'd be no fun if everything was readymade. We got to get creative and sweat a little. That's what man was made for.
Rock Bottom
To encounter the Lord we need to be raw and real with the good, bad, and ugly of our lives.
Monday, September 12, 2022
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