We have a small open field left after Grandpa had our pond dug, probably is about four acres, very wet most years, Kalamazoo muck soil, black as you will find. Grandpa always said it would grow the best corn IF you could get it planted and then IF you could get it harvested. Most years, planted in June when it dried out, we would wait until winter to harvest. Any large, early snows meant you had to figure on picking it by hand. I think that and cultivating the garden were the only jobs he wished he still had horses for. (Grandma would not drive the tractor after her only experience driving a truck ended with her parked on the front porch.) By the time I was four or five, I filled that role idling in first gear on the old MI, so all I had to do was steer- he could catch up and hit the clutch if needed. By the time I was a teen, his knees were too bad to walk in the snow and mud, so Dad and I got to pick while Gramps drove. Four acres would take us a couple of weekends to pick clean- with snow on the ground, you really didn't want to miss the wagon!
Now we can plant in April before it gets too wet, we'll see if the neighbor's new big combine will float it off this fall. The older 6620 was almost unsinkable. He often told me he saw over 250bpa in areas of that dryland field.
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