Wacker Farms and Livestock

10/20/2026

~So God made a farmer~

After spending time helping our friends and neighbors with their harvest, we are finally back home and getting started on our own! We opened up the sorghum field today and will be busy chopping and piling it over the next few days. This crop will be packed and fermented to make feed for our cattle. We love being able to help others during harvest, but there’s something special about getting back to our own fields and seeing all the hard work we’ve put in throughout the year come together. We’re excited to share the next few days with you, so stay tuned! 🌾

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10/11/2026

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10/10/2026

🌽Corn harvest is officially underway!

For those who don’t know exactly how a combine works, it’s actually a pretty impressive machine! As it moves through the field, the corn head pulls the stalks down and strips the ears of corn off. The ears then travel through the combine, where a rotating rotor separates the kernels from the cobs. A series of sieves and fans clean the grain by removing husks, cob pieces, and other debris. The clean kernels are collected in a large grain tank at the top of the machine, until they’re unloaded through an auger into a truck or grain cart. Meanwhile, the leftover stalks, cobs, and husks are scattered behind the machine and returned to the field; which we will bale later and use for our cattle!

Unlike chopping corn for silage, where we harvest nearly the entire plant, combining focuses on harvesting just the grain once the corn has matured and dried down.

And while all this was happening, Hallie was taking her job as combine supervisor VERY seriously… mostly by sleeping through her entire shift! 😂🐾🩷

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10/04/2026

🌽 Just like that… the combine is out and headed to the field! After months of planting, irrigating, and watching the crop grow, it’s finally time to start corn harvest. There’s nothing quite like seeing that first pass through the field—here we go! Stay tuned for harvest updates. 🌽

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10/03/2026

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10/02/2026

Even though we seem to stay busy all year long, fall takes “busy” to a whole new level around here! This is the time of year when several seasons overlap and everything needs done at once. We’ve been cutting, raking, and baling hay, helping neighbors dig beets, drilling wheat for next year’s crop, and irrigating that wheat when and where we can. Today, we also pulled the combine out to start going through it and making sure everything is ready to begin combining corn. 🌽

There are only so many hours in a day and only so much equipment and manpower to go around, so this time of year takes a lot of prioritizing, planning, and some pretty long days. One job gets finished just in time to move on to the next! It can definitely feel like controlled chaos, but seeing the crops come out of the field and another season’s hard work pay off makes those long hours worth it. We’ll get further into explaining beet and corn harvest once we start in on our own crops—there’s still plenty of work ahead!

🐾 As always, the girls are always there to lend a helping paw, and Petunia is getting her special treats. The other day, she got a cucumber…although she didn’t love that one! 😂🩷

09/22/2026

Sometimes before we can chop sorghum, we have to swath it first. Sorghum can get extremely tall and heavy, and once it reaches a certain point, it can start leaning or falling over, making it difficult for the chopper to pick up cleanly. I thought this would be a good opportunity to show you exactly how a swather works!

As we drive through the field, the header at the front gathers the standing crop; sorghum this time, and guides it into the cutting area. The cutterbar uses knives to cut the plants off near the ground. The sorghum then passes through the conditioning rolls, also called crimpers, which crush and flatten the stalks before the windrower lays the crop back down on the ground in a neat row called a windrow.

Instead of fighting tall, tangled, or fallen-over plants, the chopper can then come through, pick up those raked windrows, chop the sorghum into small pieces, and load it into trucks. Those trucks haul it back to the pile, where it is packed tightly and covered so it can ferment and become feed for the cattle. By swathing the sorghum first, we create clean, manageable windrows that help the chopper work more efficiently and keep the harvest moving smoothly.

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09/21/2026

That’s a wrap on water for the corn this year! 🌽💧 With harvest only a few weeks away, we gave the corn one last good drink and are now shutting down, flushing, and winterizing these sprinklers for the season. As corn reaches maturity, it needs less water, and allowing the plant and grain to naturally dry down before harvest helps bring the corn to the proper moisture for harvesting and storage. Once watering is finished, we flush the sprinkler systems to clear out sediment and debris, drain the water, and winterize everything before freezing temperatures arrive. Any water left trapped in pipes, valves, or other components can freeze, expand, and cause some pretty expensive damage. It’s another sign that the growing season is coming to an end and harvest will be here before we know it!

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