As January is quickly passing us by this year our attention is quickly turning to the upcoming planting season. This past week we have been finalizing our spring herbicide program along with making a list of all of the planter tune-ups to make and starting to work on them on the warm days. Last week I attended two different meetings. The first was at Precision Planting in Tremont, Illinois. Every time I attend one of these meetings I am fascinated at how much this company continues to improve planting performance. At last weeks meeting they introduced a product called Field View that will allow us to plug our IPad into the seed monitor and watch a real time map of what is happening with the planter. This will allow us to detect any problems that might occur quicker and allow us to have all of that information with us wherever we go. This along with some of their other products will allow us to make precision farming even more precise.
Last week I also made two trips to St. Louis. The first trip Dad and myself attended and made presentations at the 2012 National No-till Conference. This once again provided a wonderful experience of learning new things and networking with other farmers. Then we took the kids back for the 2012 Cardinal Winter Warm Up to get autographs from some of the current and former Cardinal players and get ready for the upcoming season. The kids (and myself) had a blast at this event and are ready to go back next year.
This week is kind of a quiet week around the farm. The weather so far is crummy so I think we will get caught up on bookwork and maybe start on the honey do list.....maybe!
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