Seeding update

Reynald and Alicia are marching right along with getting the seed in the ground.  They are covering about 500 acres a day!  This is great for them but a lot of work for me!  I can hardly keep up getting the seed and dry fertilizer.  I thought that I might be able to get a few things done around the house and yard this week but that has turned out to be false!  No matter.  Seeding is priority number one and I'm happy to be part of the dream team.

After I get product, I have been helping fill the air carts.  It speeds up the process a little bit.  This is the dry fertilizer going in.

The auger brings it from the ground to the top of the seed cart.

This side of the air cart is full of dry fertilizer.  The other side holds the wheat seed.

After the tank is full, Alicia scoops out the extra in to a shovel....

and throws it back in to the back of the truck.  This is part of her farm girl fit workout!

Here's Reynald filling wheat in the the other compartment in the air cart.  

Wheat going from the back of the truck in to the auger and then in to the cart.  A full cart will seed about 120 acres.  With two sets of drills going, they cover a lot of acres in a day!

Overnight some grey partridges decided to investigate the drill.  This happy bird walked the entire length of the drill, which is 56 feet!  I don't know why, but this just cracked me up!