Mark Bacon


Harvest is just about to wrap up in my area. There are still a few guys still shelling corn, but it’s few and far between. I went over to a neighbor’s last night and ran about 10 acres of corn to finish him up. He called and had a breakdown on his combine and wanted to get done before the rain hit. Well, I got him done, but the rain never came. He was still relieved. I started doing some fieldwork yesterday. My dad was running the chisel plow, and I disked some cornstalks. After all the rain we had back in June and July, we have a lot of washed-out places that need to be leveled up. I also need to take the backhoe and go around a lot of fields and push trees back that fell from all of the wind we had in August and September. It’s amazing to me how the wind can blow a tree down that’s 50 to 75 feet tall and two feet in diameter, and the corn stayed standing. I need to drive around to just about every field I have and push at least one tree back. That will give me something to do this winter.