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What do farmers do in the winter?

Around here, they haul corn to the elevator, plow snow and catch-up on all the book work.

This week we are in the “hauling corn” phase…this means getting up early and loading up the semi with corn from our bins and taking it for a 45 minute trip to an ethanol plant and a few hour wait in line.  Then return for another load.  This grain was harvested in the fall of 2014, we chose to dry and store it in our own bins, until it was sold…therefore requiring the hauling.

This big ethanol plant by the river, is not a sight you get to see everyday around here in the flat land of farm country…so our oldest children were really wanting to check out this place where Daddy and Grandpa haul their grain to.  So one day a few months ago when they were hauling, each decided to take a turn riding along.  Our oldest is all about everything farming and was completely enthralled.  Our daughter loves farming too but lets just say she has less of a passion than her brother and she made sure she took a book along for the journey.  On the way home she finished the book and was very impatient to get home.  When I asked why she wanted to go so bad, if it was boring once her book was finished, she informed me she “just HAD TO SEE IT!” Amazing what will impress and fascinate a farm kid!