We are getting close (now), to being done, with the pinto bean harvest. Tomorrow should see the end!
Prices are low. They are low on the corn and the hay also. But storing something doesn’t always produce a higher price later on.
I always find this so odd…the farmer get a small amount, but the retail in the grocery store is extremely high…too many middle people along the way, I guess.
We are still irrigating the alfalfa field. It’s a big field and takes a long time to get across, but we should finish with the irrigation by Saturday.
After that we wait.
Corn harvest will start the last of October, or in November sometime, it all depends on the moisture content of the corn.
Winding down to gear up again…it called harvest!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
You’re definitely right — farmers don’t get enough of the money we spend for food and other products. I wonder why middle-man costs never seem to go down?
LikeLiked by 1 person
I wonder so also, George. Onions are selling in the grocery store for $.98 a pound…the farm gets $.20. Look at the middle people along the way for that mark up.
LikeLike
That’s where farmers markets and farm gate shops do well; there are no fuel dollars to add to the price.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Still there are the costs of growing it, the cost of fertilizer, water, seed, etc.
LikeLike
And people should be prepared to pay a fair price for that, instead of the farmers always getting squeezed.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well, it just is what it is.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Linda
The multi-National Supermarket chains don’t miss out on anything – it is not right that farmers who do the hard work and are subjected to the “fickles of the Weather Gods” be the ones who are squeezed out.
Even green grocers and family owned butcher shops are being sent to the wall with the competition (unfair) and the rents charged by the Mall owners, also owned by multi-national organisation which are quite often the supermarket chains .
Food just does NOT grow on supermarket shelves!
Good luck with the rest of the harvest.
Cheers
Colin
LikeLiked by 1 person
Beautiful pictures, though. 😊
LikeLiked by 1 person
Going backwards in my reading catch up but wanted to say hello and wish you well on the harvest and totally AGREE with the too many middle people part of your post. Seems like the $$ should be going to the bottom of the pile but never does! Hugs my dear!
LikeLiked by 1 person
And of course the cost of fuel, fertilizer, seed, is retail prices, not wholesale.
LikeLike
And then you can just loaf for a few months. Oh, wait, I remember last winter, the chores never stop for you and Terry.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I would like to loaf..it would be a novelty
LikeLike
*hugs* Thank you and God bless. ♥
LikeLiked by 1 person
There’s always something to do! Yikes!
LikeLiked by 1 person
That is why Terry is ready to retire.
LikeLike
I LOVE YOUR PICTURES!! THANKS FOR SHARING!
LikeLiked by 1 person
yay for the end of the season!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Good to hear the bean harvest is almost over, sad to hear that the prices are not higher…farming is not for sissys:(
LikeLiked by 1 person
Linda, that last photo of the pink sky over the corn is a heartbreaker. The melancholy of the season is in full force in that photo. Summer slipping slipping away, fall, all things nearing their time to sleep out the winter. Can I print that out and carry it with me? I think I will…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh, of course! You are most welcome!
LikeLiked by 1 person
The last photo of the corn is truly beautiful!
Yay, for the season coming to a close… just as our season is about to begin!
LikeLiked by 1 person