The crops

I took a bit of a break here but am back with some cool photos of the wheat and alfalfa.  I decided to use a handsome model to show how high the crops were growing.  So here we have month's worth of growth in the wheat. 

 

It's starting to tassel out at the top.  It will be ready for harvest when it turns golden.

 

With the alfalfa we decided to switch fields.  The field I've been photoing is a first year crop, meaning this is the first year it's growing in the field.  Production is not as good the first year so I switched to a different field where the alfalfa is already established and you can see how big it gets.  So here's the original field on May 6 and the new field on June 3.

It is so pretty on the farm right now.  I love it.

 

If you've eaten today, thank a farmer.

Catching Geese

Joel often works the the division of wildlife resources.  This has been a fun project the last few years.  In the spring they catch baby geese from parks, golf courses, apartment complexes and relocate them.  E and M helped catch these geese.  They had to herd them all together, which you can imagine the geese don't like.  This would have been hilarious to watch.  E and M are brave and awesome.  E got bit by a bigger baby goose and it left a mark on her arm.  The geese get banded so their migration can be tracked.  Then they get loaded into crates and travel to their new home. 

We got 160 baby geese to come live on the big pond at the farm.

The crates get unloaded and then the birds are all released all at once.  Different than releasing pheasants.

W kept saying, "Hi du-du" as translated to "Hi ducks."

Everybody got a turn to hold a goose before releasing them into the pond.

B lets his little goose go.

Then they opened up all the crates.

And the birds ventured to their new home. 

 These geese will now view this pond as their home and will come back here to nest.  Joel manages the wildlife on the farm in a way to help the cow herd and fields.  Good times.

If you've eaten today, thank a farmer.

The Canal water is here

We get our irrigation water from the Bear River.  Joel calls it the Mighty Bear.  When the water is "turned on" the canal company lets the water out of a dam into the canal.  We have water rights from the canal that feed into ditches along our fields.  We flood irrigate our fields with this water.

Here's the canal with just an inch or so of water before irrigation season began.

Here are two photos of the canal.  Full as can be.  Water is life.

If you've eaten today, thank a farmer.