It seems like it's been raining for 30 days straight here in the Heartland - oh wait - it has! Thank goodness Mother Nature let up a little last week and allowed the ground to dry up a bit! In fact, on Thursday, Big D was finally able to get in the fields and get some corn planted. Yeeehaw!!!

So now from here on out from sun up to sun down and a few dark hours in between he'll be in the field getting the corn and (soy)beans planted. Once we're finished here at the home farm (in Indiana) - we'll load most of our equipment up and haul butt over to Ohio (where my family has farmed since 1847) to finish planting ideally before the end of May!

Big D isn't a big fan of his mug flashing on my blog - but I was able to capture a couple shots of his first day in the field (planting), without him knowing.

*Que evil laugh ... muwahaha!

This is our "new" planter - Big D was pretty psyched, I mean worried, about taking it out. Absolutely, no problems thus far, thank goodness. We don't have time for hold-ups at this point. Here, Big D is seen lubricating the seed meters with graphite or talc powder so the seed is dispersed smoothly into the ground.

Filling the seed hoppers with Pioneer corn seed. Click here for a full explanation of how we select seed each season.

Meanwhile, our local co-op is filling our fertilizer hopper with product, which we then use to fill our fertilizer bins on the planter.

Also, I heard this oldie, but goody on country radio last week (it totally brings me back to when I was a young girl riding in the tractor with my dad during spring planting... good memories, good times!) and it's a great anthem for all of those hard-working farmers out there getting the crop in the ground.

If you happen to pass a farmer in the field or the road, please give him a friendly wave - he is working so hard to help provide a safe, wholesome and affordable food supply for all of us!



(This post was originally scheduled for Friday, May 13)