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Tag: John Deere

Posted on May 14, 2019December 6, 2022

Planting Corn and Old School Brownies

It’s time to plant corn. This is an important event on our farm.

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Posted on April 22, 2019December 6, 2022

So Very Cultivated and Easy Meatloaf

Planting in last year’s bean field doesn’t take as much preparation as planting in last year’s cornfield.

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Posted on March 12, 2019March 17, 2023

Preparation is the Key and Hannah’s Irish Soda Bread

There are several pieces of equipment we use to put in the crop. For planting corn, we use a 9-shank John Deere chisel plow (1996), a 28-foot John Deere soil finisher (1988) and a John Deere 4-row planter (1985). We use three different tractors; a John Deere 4755 (1992), a John Deere 4040 (1980) and a John Deere 4440 (1979).

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