The Back Field 500

It has been a long night.  I've been looking over the video footage of The Farmer as he rode on the tractor yesterday afternoon.  Here's a sample of what I've been seeing.



This is like the most boring Nascar race I've ever watched!  All right turns and no car wrecks!  And there's like 272 laps to go!  Couldn't I have been given something else to do more exciting?

Okay, okay, it really isn't that bad.  At least The Farmer was doing something important.  He was tilling the soil so that wheat (and a bit of ryegrass for color and flavor; yum!) could be sown for the spring harvest.  This field was the only one that had to be done like this.  The others were all no-till which means he just sowed the wheat without working the ground any at all. Unfortunately the field in the video was too hard to plant like that and if he hadn't worked the ground up then many of the seeds might not have grown very well.

At least I've got the spring harvest to look forward to and all that delicious wheat silage.  Until then, lets see, The Farmer is now on lap 346.

Agent 226, reporting from the Udder Side.

Recon MIssion

I have pondered on what lay over the hill since beginning our mission here.  We have been so busy getting set up that I had not been able to see what The Farmer does over there.  Yesterday a package arrived from the C.A.L.F. main office.  It contained the GX9000 digital camera I had been dying to get ever since I saw it in the Acme Spys-R-Us catalog.  I sent Agent 325 on a recon mission.  I knew I could always count on her to do a good job.  She had recently been turned dry and would not be likely missed during the day.  Agent 325 may not be milking during her dry period before calving, but it is no excuse to not carry out her duties, pregnant or not.

While she did not find any dirt on The Farmer, Agent 325 found plenty growing in the dirt.  Wheat, rye, and ryegrass were found in several fields.

It may look like ordinary grass to the layperson, but these crops will soon be chopped and fermented in the silos to be sweet silage.  Even if I was not an agent of C.A.L.F. I would be excited to find this out.

Agent 101, reporting from the Udder Side.