Plotting out next years gardens and making a lot of modifications from the last several years. I dipped into some of the novelty stuff last summer and I am dipping right back out of it :) The T5R is pretty well known for as a meat and taters traditional operation and I believe I am going to stick with that. One of our older customers gave me some sage advice this fall Stick with what your do best and leave all that funny shit to other people. When a 91 year old man shares wisdom I am smart enough to heed his words. I am planting a huge amount of sweet potatoes in 2015. A experiment I started last spring has proven to be a great success. And what started as a couple of rows will evolve into a couple of acres and if the test plots yields hold true on a larger scale will mean around 95,000-100,000 pounds of sweet taters will be produced here next year. Some will be available at markets, 90%-95% will be used on the T5R :) Green Beans, 6 varieties of tomatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, jalepeno peppers, lettuce, onions, spinach, herbs, summer squash, winter squash, cucumbers, kale, endive,potatoes, and sugar snap peas are all still on the to grow list. My sandbox experiment for white potatoes worked out very well. The sand boxes produced some huge potatoes. I brought the first of them to market last Saturday and they were a top selling item. I only have 350 pounds of them left and will continue to sell them for $1.50 each until they are gone. If baked potatoes are your thing, these monster russetts are for you! I will be building more sand boxes over the winter and should have around 3,500 pounds of them next fall. The new gilts are all bred and we are on track to increasing pork production as planned. The litters born over the last 8 weeks are all growing well and looking great. More finished hogs go in for processing December 4th and will replenish our dwindling pork stocks. After this group goes in the rotation will be back on track from the previous processing delay. It will be nice to have the various groups of pigs in the right places and in the right order! The cattle are doing well, Old Red will have her calf in about 2 months, I normally dont shoot for births at that time but Red needed a break in her calving schedule. The steers born the summer of 2013 are growing great and filling out well. They will be ready to become beefburger starting in April/May. The calves born this year are growing better than expected and are on track for finishing in 2016. This up and down weather is really screwing the laying hens up. They start laying and then we get a major shift in weather and they stop again. Going to spend some time making some modifications to the hen house this weekend and get it better sealed up and a better heat system in it. Hopefully that will help level them out and not having the warm up and the really cold stress. I kind of would like 300 hens to be producing more than a dozen eggs perweek ;)
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:56:00 +0000
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