News & Happenings

3/5/2010 - New Paint On An Old Horse

This week, We finished cleaning up everything at the bin site. We got around to hooking up and testing some of the harder equipment and intend to finish the easier stuff next week. We finished gluing the doors for Rich's house and started a new painting project. We are painting a John Deere 6030 pulling tractor. She will be quite the looker when we get her done! Keep checking back for photos and updates on when we are going to have her finished.

Next week, We will have all of our grain contracts full. This means we will be done hauling it for now. We are going to continue work on the JD6030. With any luck, it will be completed in two weeks. We will also pre-hang all of the doors to Rich's house before we start staining them.

Check out the new photos in the photo gallery!

3/5/2010 - At the bin

This Week, we were not able to get in the fields and check tile or thin brush like we had planned. The frost is coming out of the ground and making it far too muddy. We did however get all of prescriptions made and all of the equipment calibrated. We are ready to go! We started cleaning up the bin site and are ready to pressure wash the pit and the dryer. We continued to haul grain out for sale and wrapped up some more smaller projects in the shop.

Next week, if the weather permits, we will wash everything at the bin site (dryer, pits, airlock system, etc). We will also hook up all of the disks, planters, and cultivators to the tractors. This is to make sure that everything is tested and working properly. If we have time, we will probably finish gluing all of Rich's doors.

C'mon Spring!

2/26/2010 - New Equipment

This week, we received our new Planter and a new Front Wheel Assist Tractor for side dressing when spring rolls around. You can view photos of these in the Current Activity gallery. These arrivals mean that we have all of our shiny new equipment in except a new mowing tractor (which we expect in April).

With our position being a waiting game between us and the weather, we have been doing some woodworking in the shop. Pictures of this are also in the Current Activity gallery. Our office is starting to wrap up all of our chemical and seed purchases for this years crop. We continued to haul grain to the various St. Louis grain markets.

Next week, we are going to go out and make sure all field tile is running and take note of what needs to be fixed. We are going to make sure all the inlets and standpipes are not plugged up. While we are doing this we are going to trim the brush and cleanup downed trees around the field edges. In the shop, we will continue doing a bit of woodwork on the doors for Rich's house. Prescriptions are being made for seed an anhydrous for spring. Also, calibration on the StarFire Tractor Guidance System, the GS2 Monitors and other equipment is being done. With the weather warming up at the end of next week, we are going to be cleaning up our bin site. We are getting excited, how about you?

2/19/2010 - Tiled a New Field, Added Some New Features

This week, we continued hauling grain to ADM and began hauling to Cargill in St. Louis. We reorganized and prepared for seed deliveries that we hope will start rolling in the first week of March. All of our smaller equipment, (ATV's, Pick-Ups, etc), are washed up and serviced. We put some modifications on some of the new tractors. The larger stuff is all fine tuned and ready to roll at the first sign of a break in the cold. Our major project this week was helping one of our landowners tile a new field. This was a new experience for us. You can view pictures of this on our new Current Activity gallery. Also, we are introducing a new feature: Picture of the Week. Every week we will select a picture from our Current Activity gallery to represent our progress that week.

Next week, we will be doing one of two things, depending on the weather. Either we will be in the shop painting the John Deere 512 Disk Ripper or we will be cleaning the pits and dryer at our bin site.

We are now updating the site every friday! So check often for more!

2/12/2010 - Rain, Rain, Go away.

This week, we have finished up cleaning and servicing all equipment! We updated the gallery page to allow for faster page load times and to allow us to update it easily. Check often to see visual progress of the work we do!

Next week, We are going to be hauling grain to ADM in Sauget. Also, we are going to get all of our equipment fueled up and stocked to start spring work. We are getting caught up in the shop. We starting to relax and work on some smaller projects like pick-ups, lawn mowers, and four wheelers. If the weather improves, we are going to start cleaning up the bin site. Monday, we are going to be helping a tile company put field tile in one of our new farms.

2/5/2010 - Progress Update

In the shop,Next week we have two tractors left to polish and service in order to have all equipment completely finished and ready for spring. Also, next week we are returning our old planter to Sloan Implement and picking up a brand new 24-Row Planter!

In the field, the weather has been snowyish and rainy with mild temperatures. This makes it really difficult to get much done in the field. Around the beginning of March we are hoping to start disking and putting Anhydrous on.

1/31/2010 - Progress

We are currently cleaning, servicing, and drying the last bit of corn at the bin sites. We intend to haul corn for sale around the middle of February.

In the field, we are down to chisel plowing when the weather permits us to.
In the shop, we are wrapping up the fall washing and servicing of the equipment. In a few weeks, we will begin gearing up for our spring season field work. Keep checking www.RJDFarm.com/news for updates on our progress!

1/27/2010 - We have alot happening down on RJD Farm!

We have a brand new website that will be frequently updated. We also have a newsletter in the works, and a ton more we can't talk about yet!
Stay tuned.

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