Taking the beans to town with Old Red.
Hello Spunky fans!
I know Junior's been flooding the thread a bit lately with his adventures, and while he gets his rugged good looks and boyish charm from me he can't load a log truck like I can, lol.
We have taken our beans to town, which gives us the final totals of our Year 3 harvest as we are now getting ready to harvest our wheat and canola in Year 4. As you can see, we had no problem clearing $100,000 and got within sniffing distance of $200,000. This allowed us to pay off $130,000 in farm debt and put us in good position for another (hopefully) successful year.
Year 3 Harvest:
• Wheat (12,239L) - Chicken feed
• Barley (8,975L) - Chicken feed
• Canola (17,661L) - $23,551
• Oats (9,595L) - $11,720
• Corn (31,532L) - $27,817
• Soybeans (19,198L) - $42,639
• Potatoes (???L) - $49,799
• Sugarbeets (138,064L) - $37,864
Harvest total for Year 3:
$193,390
We continue to harvest logs out of the Carlton Forest Reserve and turned in another $45,000+ worth of profit on a recent truckload. We're in the process of moving some of our equipment to a new site within the Reserve called Shorty's Creek.
It's strange not having Junior here, but he's well on his way and as parent, that's what you hope for. I will say this, however, no one can push your buttons like family can.
Junior wishes he could load like this.
All-in-all, life is pretty good for us right now. If it ever stops raining, we'll harvest our wheat for the year. Since last year went to the chickens, we'll be selling our wheat this year. The new goal is $200,000 for Year 4, wish us luck.
See you up the road!
-Spunky (AKA The Old Man, Pops, Daddio, whatever nickname of the week Junior comes up with, sheesh)
The amber waves of grain.