Harvest, part 2

Yesterday morning I went off on a tangent about the cows getting out.

Yesterday afternoon "the men" including our 10-year-old DS1, finished harvesting soybeans. Since the weather turned off dry from the county fair to the start of school -- about six weeks -- we wondered how the beans would turn out.

I was surprised. On the lighter soil, they yielded as well as any other year. On the heavy ground, where I expected a higher yield, they did not do well at all. My theory is that the clay in our heavy ground set up like concrete and the roots couldn't get anything out of the ground. At least they were not a total loss.

Grandpa finished the last field of hay. It is so sweet and green it looks like it belongs in a salad bowl. DH calls this candy. Dairy cows in milk make the best use of it.

Now we are planting wheat.

Here's the break-down list:
On the tractors --
Transmission trouble
Grain wagons --
Flat tires
Disk -- broken hitch, needed welding
Nothing on the hay baler
Nothing on the hay wagons.
Big sigh of relief ... nothing expensive (this week, anyway)