One of the hardest parts about being a farmer is the fact of not being able to control the weather.
This year has been hard on all the farmers in our area.
With all the water it’s hard for farmers to get in the fields to plant their crops, which means less bushels per acre. Which means, less money.
On Friday we had an awful storm come through our area. We spent all of Saturday working together as a family to get all of our debris cleaned up. It was definitely one of those days where I am so happy to be a part of a family farm.
We started at one place and moved to the next pretty much all day. At the end of the day everyone was worn out, hot, sweaty, sun burnt, and surprisingly not as grumpy as when we first started!
After a long day of picking up trees my mother in law and I decided we would rather pick up sticks for days than to see some of our corn laying nearly on its side like it is now.
We got really lucky in the fact that it only took out some of our big trees and windbreaks for the cattle and laid down some of our corn. Other farmers in the area were not nearly as lucky.
OH MY! My heart goes out to you! So far we have been spared, but there were several storms that caused me to pray that they go through as gently as possible. Hugs! ON the bright side you should be good to go on firewood for a while. Seriously, seeing big old trees go down always makes me sad ;-( Here is to better days and calmer skies!
Wow That is awful I hope you corn comes out of it. Those bins are really ruined. Hope this weird weather stops. Your big tree was rotten in the center they say that will cause them to go down. Did you have a lot of rain??
Thankful all you peoples were okay through the storms. 🙂
Thanks ladies for all the hugs and well wishes! We did have a ton of rain, but I was so glad we had all the help we did! And so glad no one got hurt!