Pictures form around the county during my week.

Well I survived the flu. The rest of the family is passing it all around now. GREAT FUN!!! LOL.

So when I left the house Tuesday morning to deliver a load of feed for my son I ended up having to do all of the deliveries the rest of the week. I did not even get to sleep at home until Friday night. The boys where both sick. I was in and out all week but had to run to load or make deliveries day and night.

Here are some pictures from around the county.


Here are my cattle hard at work adding some pounds before snow/winter weather.

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Here is view across the rolling corn ground. This ground will raise a very good crop of corn even thought it is not flat. It has a CSR ( Corn Suitability Rating) in the low 90s. Hauling corn from this fellow.



Here are some houses looking like they are growing out of the corn field. They actually are being built on the ground left after the state removed a bunch of the dirt for Iowa route 20. So they really are not taking good farm ground. Still kind of a different look. Just south of Farley Iowa.



Here is another field of some more of my cattle. The alfalfa had a lot of regrowth that turned brown after the real cold weather a few weeks ago. The cattle still are eating some of it thought. This is one of my flatter fields too.

Nice pic's. What is in the green strips with cattle ?
Led

Nice country, and a nice blue sky. Why do most American farms run
Angus type cattle? Did none of the continental European cattle
catch on, like Limousin, Charolais,Pietmontese or Belgian Blue?
Just curious.......Sam

JD Seller,
Pretty country around you. Nice pics.

beautiful! By the way,did the vinegar help?

Around here the continental cattle have a reputation (fair or not)for being harder to handle than Angus.Plus buyers pay more for Angus.

Looks like east central Indiana where my little farm is at.

on the hills, we strip farm to help minimize erosion. A strip of corn then a strip of hay. Cheaper then terraces I guess..

Beautiful country.

The greener strips are Spelts that I sowed on where we cut corn silage. I used it in my small calf feed ration. I am about the only one around here that raises Spelts. It is getting to the point there is not much hay either. The high grain prices have made many farmers tear out their hay strips/fields.

Just about all of my ground is laid out in contour strips. I have a few terraces but I like the contour strips better. They are a lot easier tof arm around/over.

Average alfalfa and grass hay round bales are bringing $200 plus a ton. Real good dairy quality alfalfa topped $350 this week at the hay sale.

Larry I think the vinegar worked wonders on me and the one grand Son. My DIL tried it when it was her turn at the flu. She could not hold it down.