Those massive wheels at the back of the cultivator are ‘packer-wheels’.  Very important part of the cultivator, since the shovels tear up the rows, the wheels pack the furrows back down.  The water can flow through the field into the waste ditch, back into the canal for the next farm to use.  The fertilizer is applied at the same time as the cultivation and the packing is occurring, therefore cutting down on fuel and time. Since my husband works a 40-hour job, on top of farming full-time, these nifty shortcuts really help.

This the last cultivation of the corn.  It will soon be too tall for the tractor to go through the field.

The beans are poking up above ground and rowing out

Even farm women help haul hay.  Our second hay customer of the year! Jan and Lonnie Polzin —over 4 tons of hay hauled away to thier place.

An old-time baler

The very next day we had our first hay customer.

If the weather holds we will have 4 cuttings of hay, but for sure we will have 3 cuttings of hay.

Over-1,000 bales are stacked this cutting, ready for hay customers and our own livestock.