It is hard to beleive that 2010 is about to come to an end. Each of the past three years we have had some type of adverse weather conditon (mainly too much rain) that has caused us to think that the next year will be better. We are definintely feeling that way about 2010 and the upcoming 2011. As we say good bye to 2010 we would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Merry Christmas from The Martin Family
This past weekend brought us our first snow storm of the weekend. We only had a few inches of snow, but with the good ol Illinois wind we still had a blizzard. Before the snow we were able to get a jump on hauling some of our corn out of the bin. With as dry as the corn was this year I have not seen any problems so far with any of the on farm stored grain. The cold winter days have now allowed us some time to get some of the seed for 2011 billed, and end of the year bookwork started before Christmas gets here. Oh yes we are also experiencing one of the joys of having kids, the flu. Luke started it last week and has gotten three of us so far. However, we did manage to get a visit in to Santa this past weekend. This week we will be continuing some of the bookwork and making sure everything is in order along with a few jobs around the house that get overlooked during harvest.
We are experiencing our first really cold weather of the winter season. As I write this the wind chill is zero and there is a light dusting of snow on the ground. With the cold weather we will be switching our focus from fall fieldwork to the "winter jobs" that we do around the farm. The good weather that we had this fall let us do more work than we had planned on doing. This week we will try to finalize our 2011 cropping plans and make sure that we have all of the seed that we want ordered. We will also start the end of the year paperwork and probably start to empty some corn from some of the grain bins.
This time of year also brings a lot of activities with the kids and family. The three boys all have their christmas programs this week, and we still have to make a trip to see Santa so the boys can tell him what is on their lists. This past weekend we also had Ella's baptism and celebrated with family at our house on Saturday night.
Ella's baptism
Martin Family Farms is a six generation family farm that produces corn and soybeans in central Illinois.
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