May 1, 2010

• This is for Meghann

  Here is a lesson in farming for Meghann.  This is the field that Ian plowed the day after he plowed it.  Sorry I don’t have any pictures of him plowing but I have been a bit busy with school.

  

  You can see the bits of sod and how the plow turned it over.  They leave it to dry out for a day or so before they disc the field.

  

  This is Doug discing half of the field.  Half of it is going to be planted in oats and the other half will be in corn.  You can see the other side where they haven’t disced it yet.  Discing it breaks up the clumps that were created by the plow.

   

  Up close of the disc.  You can see the shiny coulters that Ian replaced last year. 

  

  This is the drag that they use after they disc.  The drag brings up any clumps that may be left from the first discing.  Then they will disc again.  The purpose of all this working of the ground is to have a very smooth field when they are going to put seeding in and make it into a hay field.  If it isn’t smooth then it can hurt the disc bine when they mow or the baler when they bale.

  

  Here is Ian planting the oats.  The seeder has boxes of different sizes on it with tubes going down along the coulters that cover up the seeds after they fall into the ground.

  

  A close up of the seeder.  You can see the lids on top where they fill it up with seeds. 

  After Ian planted the oats he went over the whole field with a very heavy roller to smooth it out and pack it down so that the moisture that is in the ground will stay there and so that it is nice and smooth for the harvesting equipment later on.

  Later, Meghann, you will have a lesson in planting corn.

   

   

   

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