Trash!  Trash is a BIG deal, and this year seems worse than other years.  Mainly because of the wind!  I like the wind; I like the fact that the wind is one of our helpers in that it brings the leaves to the tops of trees.  But I don’t like the wind for all the trash and weeds that blow along with it.

Then you couple wind and trash with water (which sinks all the trash) you get a mess!  And if you aren’t diligent you will get ditches that are stopped up enough to flood whole fields.

So every couple of hours YOU MUST GO CHECK THE DITCHES for messes like this one!

Look closely and you can see bubbles (white foam) and the each of the cement ditch, which means that we don’t have enough gates in the gated pipe open and a build up is about to occur.  The build up means the water flows over the side (NOT GOOD) and creates another mess.  We don’t like those types of problems.

This photo shows you success.  The water made it all the way down the 25 acre field to end of the field.  YEAH!!!! The furrow with the water will form a crust that will make the water flow down better next time.  Imprint the row.  This is good.  This is the goal.  To get the water to seal the row, but at the same time provide enough moisture to sub across to the next row!

You will notice that every other row has the water in it.  That is the way you water corn, every other row.  So this field will be planted to corn in about 10 days. Beans and hay are watered differently.

Talli used a stick to help dig out the trash.  She called it her shovel.

The grandkids like to come out and help irrigate.  Blade and Linkin were way down the row digging out the stuck corn stalks and other bits of trash but Tallen stayed with us.