Our beautiful weather continued with another almost 70 degree day. I got our Kuhn mower conditioner all pressure washed and ready for storage. There's an amazing amount of gunk that accumulates under the hood.

I also moved a round bale feeder and brought over some gravel to create a better pad. We fed the cattle baleage through the processor and they continue to really eat it up.

The electrician reappeared to finish up some plugs and get power to our new cattle waterer so the heater will work when needed.

Late in the afternoon, one of our friends came to combine his beans. This is land that we surround on all sides that is owned by an absentee owner. He is not interested in selling and our friend has rented the land for several years. It's a new red combine which is quite a break from tradition since our friend has had an all green farm for many years.

While we were looking over the combine, a man and his wife and a colleague came to look over the six full size Angus. We made a deal but he wants them pregnancy tested. We think they are all bred but we will use a test that is new to us. It involves drawing a small amount of blood from the cow's tail vein. The vial is then sent to a lab which guarantees 97 percent accuracy. We will get the samples tomorrow and should have results by Friday.

Verne arranged to have our friend set the combine to windrow the bean waste. I'll bale them tomorrow and we can truck them to Verne's at our convenience.