Foooooour!

Get it?  The title is a pun off the old golfing joke.  Haha.

But this post has nothing to do with golfing.  The "Fooooooour!" is referring to the fourth of our pictures featured on WHO Channel 13's Photolink.

Once again, I know its not a big deal; two or three pictures are featured everyday and mine are no more special than the others.... but its still kinda neat to see your name and picture on the big screen!



The description that I sent in with the picture went something like this:  I'm used to my husband telling  me its going to be a quick lunch because they've got to beat the rain during the spring, summer and fall seasons, but in February?!?!  This morning he told me it was going to be quick so they could finish the plowing before the rain hits!  Notice the cows on the hill in the background.  They are loving this weather and are still being able to graze since the grass isn't snow covered yet!

 Just a little explanation about the plowing:  every once in a while, crops need to be rotated to keep the nutrients in the ground from being depleted.  This is the case especially on corn ground because growing corn can be pretty rough on a field;  corn has a way of sucking all the good stuff out of the soil, with plenty of help from  farmers who are trying to get every last kernel they can from an ear of corn!  Often times, you'll see corn and soybean ground being rotated because the beans put nitrogen back in the soil that the corn needs to thrive.  So its a sort of natural replenishment for the soil for the next year when corn will be grown there again.  We, however, have no need for soybeans since soybeans aren't on the herds' list of favorite foods.  Instead, we rotate corn and hay ground, two crops that we need to keep the livestock fed.  In the picture, Josh is turning over some old hay ground that will be used for corn this year while we exchange an old corn field for hay, thus "resting" the corn ground and letting it get restored for its next corn growing season.  A field of hay will last several years, so on our rotations the ground has plenty of time to lie fallow of corn and get replenished. Josh and his dad figure out what field will be planted in which crop over the winter so they can start field work right away in the Spring.  But with this year's mild temperatures, there is no frost in the ground yet.  Since there is no frost, the guys can plow up the new fields and let them mellow out with the freezing and thawing of winter, making it softer when the next step comes in Spring.