Yesterday, Monday, we started the 2016 Corn Harvest!
It’s early this year! Wonderfully so!
Before Halloween even! With blue skies and nice weather! Sure is a nice feeling.
Last year, we were not able to harvest in 2015.
Nope, it was in January before we could even begin!
So far we are way, way, way ahead of last year’s harvest!
2016 is an amazing year…we harvested corn in January and now again in October!
Not many years can boast two corn harvests in one year!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
How very different your farming world is from ours and how fascinating to read about.
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I just got through reading a wonderful history about Cobham Hall. You live in a world of wonder!
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Congratulations on getting started with your second corn harvest of 2016! I hope everything goes smoothly and well
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So far so good. If we have no break downs and the lines are not too long we should be done in a couple of weeks.
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That’s Nature for you: takes with one hand and gives back with the other! I’m so glad you’re ahead of schedule; perhaps now you’ll be able to take winter a little easier…?
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I sure hope so! Getting harvest done in record time is so NICE!
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yay!!! yes, i remember it not ‘drying’ last year.
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Too much humidity in the air. This year we are ‘normal’ dry!
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Yay! I hope you have a good yield, too!
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Me too! Terry says the cobs are not as long as he likes, but they are nice and fat.
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Olathe-sweet? or a more “Delta” variety?
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Dry corn, the kind you have in your cereal or the animals eat.
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Oh, so happy for you!! It’s a great feeling to be able to get your crops out of the field! Some are harvesting cotton here, but we are probably several weeks away from being ready. Our cotton was planted late due to heavy Spring rains. It is looking good, but time will tell if the fiber length and strength are good quality or not.
Love your pictures! Glad to have you back online! Blessings!
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Terry and I were watching RFD TV and they were saying the cotton harvest was just starting. I sure hope you have an excellent crop!
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So glad that your harvest is occurring on time, and also glad to see you back! I was getting worried that something more serious than an Internet outage might be going on. Good news all around!
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12 days is a terribly long time, but the company was very gracious and gave me a nice discount on my bill!
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Normal is a good thing!
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Normal is a VERY good thing!
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I am so happy you are back…I was worried about you. I, too, hoped your absence was just an internet problem. I live just up the road in Grand Junction but I am a farm/ranch person at heart.
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You are just 40 minutes away! We go into Junction for a break every now and then.
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so what kind of breaking do you do in Gee Jay?
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Shopping at Vit. Cottage, and getting parts for ‘stuff’ Home Depot, Sutherland’s —all that sorta thing.
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we should have bought stock in both Home De(s)pot & Lowes — might-a seen some of our X-penditures back as dividends by now …
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So true!
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Two big paydays in one year…can’t beat that.
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No one cant! YAY!
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beautiful sight. we’re in between beans and corn here, and our farmers had good days like that for the beans. –suz in NE ohio
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Love harvest…the signs and sounds and the soon to have a full checkbook again!
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A rewarding end of season! Hurray!
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YES!
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Yeah for harvesting corn in October!! I hope it all goes well! 🙂 Good to have you back:) I missed you!
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I’m SOOOOO glad to be back and getting caught back up with everyone! I missed you also, Connie!
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Oh, YAY! Such a literal load off your minds! Will make next year a bit easier to prepare for, too. Love your good farming work!
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Glad you’re ‘back in the saddle’ Linda, been missing you. I remember your trial of not being able to harvest the corn in ’15, so this is great. Once in great while there are harvesting problems here in SW Iowa due to snow and in those times there are two harvests the following year too. Now look at me– be safe — ignore the temptation to rush. Thank You for sharing.
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So far the moisture is staying at 13. Each field…so we are celebrating. Hope to be done in a couple of weeks!
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if my me(s)mory was better (&/or took better notes) I could/would more-accurately compare the years and seasons. however, nothing (much) beats watchin’ the farm to accurately gauge the precession of the seasons ! funny, though, cottonwoods are still pretty golden “down here” — whereas the Mesa looks kind of gray/brown ~
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Little drabs of color here and there but fading fast.
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Life is good!!
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Happy Harvest, my farmer friend!
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THANK YOU!!! You so understand!
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Great news that you are getting an early start. We haven’t had many dry days this month. Way too warm as well. Hope the harvest goes well to the end.
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We are staying steady so everything should well….baring nothing breaks! Thank you!
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Fabulous news! I’m so pleased Linda .. hugs
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Me too, Julie! To be be done before Thanksgiving is a HUGE blessing!
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