09/18/2026
This drone video was taken last Sunday and does a great job of capturing two of our six Choppers in action on a 70-acre field North of the farm. It is amazing to see how much feed can be processed by two of these machines, and even more incredible when all six machines end up in one large field harvesting 72 rows in a single pass.
Favorable conditions at the time of this video allowed us to keep the Choppers spread out in different directions, with two teams of two Choppers and two Choppers running solo in smaller fields. This helps to even the delivery rate of feed to the storage area, As while some of the Teams are busy with the slower process of starting fields, others are at full production as they work on an already started field.
We are thankful for the beautiful Crop, the hard-working, talented and devoted Team that has worked tirelessly to gather the crop, and the large lineup of modern machinery that makes this job possible.
Sunday night into Monday we received nearly 2 1/2 inches of rain, which has slowed harvest production down. The rain has made it necessary to use dump carts to transfer the crop out of the fields and to the trucks that transport the harvested feed to the pile. Even with the rains, the progress has still been excellent, and at the start of harvest this morning (day nine) more than 90,000 tons of high-quality Feed had already been placed onto the pile.
With rains predicted this afternoon and tonight, we will have to wait and see if we are able to chop tomorrow or if it's simply going to be too wet.
Still several days to go, but we can see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Have a fantastic Friday, everyone!
