Some farm pics

Eldon (WA)

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We have been having record heat out here lately, crops are way ahead of a normal year. I grew up during a 10 year drought in South Dakota, makes me smile every time I turn on my irrigation!

First planting of sweet corn.

2nd planting of corn, not much different from first, planted 10 days later.

Garlic patch in the foreground (dug it already - and is in the barn curing), zucchini and summer squash forest in the distance.

10,000 plus onion plants growing like crazy, they get up to 3# in size, a customer favorite. I will be pulling them in a week or two.

Planting #5 and #3 of sweetcorn. I plant in 7 stages and pick for about 8 weeks.

Green beans to the right, cereal rye to the left. Still have to find a combine.....

Hardneck garlic drying

To keep it tractor related......

Softneck garlic curing in the barn...will be selling it in a week or so.

Huge heads this year.

Had to pull my hayracks out of the shed to make room for garlic. I store them this way to take up less space. I will be putting them on their running gears next week and loading them back up with onions for curing soon.


 
I sure do like your irrigation system better than ours. We've had God doing it for us this year and I think he thinks the whole eastern U.S. needs a good washing and he's right as always. I haven't been able to get the last 5 fields of first cutting hay done yet. Oh well, he makes it rain, he'll make it ok to put hay up when he wants to. Your operation looks great by the way. Keith
 
(quoted from post at 13:14:20 07/04/15) Will the combine be an All Crop Harvester, or a Gleaner?

A neighbor has an AllCrop just up the road that I can probably use....just not sure how much work it will take to get it going. Been so busy and hot, I just haven't taken the time to give him a call. His neighbor stopped by and said that he said I could use it, but he didn't have time to do it for me. Guess we will see.
 
(quoted from post at 14:59:21 07/04/15) Are you anywhere near Walla Walla ? Nice looking outfit - LOT of work !

Quite a ways from Walla Walla. I am just north of the weigh station on I-90 as you come into WA from Idaho.
 
Very nice looking spread there! I had no idea that onions would grow in a field of landscape rocks, around here they are all grown in the river bottom muck dirt. Always amazes me how we farmers do virtually the same things in completely different ways and with widely varying resources.
 
Very pretty, well maintained place. Speaks well of your work ethic and culture. On the garlic, I have it growing wild in the flower beds
around the house. Just want some for supper it's handy. Apparently it grows from a rhizome as it replaces what I take out.
 

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