Visit to Green Carpet Event Written on February 5, 2010, by Josh.Baynes.
GreenValley Ag & Turf showed off some new John Deere products Thursday evening, Feb. 4, including the new 8R Series tractors. If you are familiar with John Deere tractors, you have probably never noticed any letter associated with any tractors. John Deere decided to change that up and now when you see the letter “R”, [...]
Farmers Harvesting Corn Cobs? Written on November 4, 2009, by Josh.Baynes.
A new ethanol plant is expected to be built in the northwest Iowa town of Emmetsburg that will turn corn cobs into ethanol. Typically, corn cobs are left on the ground after a combine harvests corn, but now farmers may have reason not to leave them because it could mean cash in their pockets. Farmers recently [...]
Farmer Josh Putting Final Touches on Field Before Planting Written on May 7, 2009, by Josh.Baynes.
The day is drawing very close for me to plant! Recently, a few things were done to the field to get it ready to be planted. This included adding fertilizer and the harrowing the field.
A few weeks ago, Innovative Ag Services out of Central City did what is called a grid sample of the field for [...]
Farmer Josh Practices Planting Written on April 23, 2009, by Josh.Baynes.
I had a chance this week to get a little practice in planting corn. I joined up with Brian Lensch while he was planting in a field east of Marion. He was brave enough to let me take the wheel for a while! Actually, I didn’t have to use the wheel very much because he showed me [...]
Inside the Tractor Written on April 19, 2009, by Josh.Baynes.
Here are some pictures from inside the tractor that I will be driving to plant in the coming days!
This is where I will control the throttle, gear shift and the planter.
Here are computer screens for the engine readout and also the auto steering. For such a small plot, I won’t need to use the auto [...]