Today is a beautiful Indian Summer day. It looks like it might stay this way for the next week.

It's a second chance for getting things prepared for winter. One of our friends was able to get his soy beans combined. He came by and borrowed our dump wagon to help move his beans from the combine to the bin. When we checked this evening, he was still going. Kind of the bean equivalent of make hay when the sun shines.

Soy bean prices are up a little over the last few weeks but still much lower than earlier this year.

We got our grain drill all cleaned up ready to be put away. We also did some fine tuning to our new fences. It's a lot nicer doing it at 65 than 25 degrees. The new cattle have settled in well. They pass time visiting over the fence with the other cattle when they are not eating.

I took advantage of the good weather to backblade manure away from areas where they congregate. I recently found out that this is not my barnyard but a high impact area in government speak. We're also working to develop a more efficient way of feeding. Tomorrow Jim and I are going to look at some precast concrete bunk feeders.

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