The Making of a Farmer Week #3--Brrrrr

Well this week's post isn't much different from last week's.  You see on Monday, April 15, it was cold.  I mean really cold...so cold it snowed.  

Corn does not like cold weather.  

Corn likes warm weather.

The cold weather didn't kill the corn, but it did damage it.  As you can see on the plant below, the tips of the leaves that were out of the ground did get damaged by the cold weather.

 A few of the plants were smart and stayed under cover while it snowed and are starting to push their way out today.

This week we need warm weather.  This week my little farmer's corn could really use a good soaking rain.  If all those things happen this week, we might see the corn really start to grow faster.

Until next week,
A Kansas Farm Mom

Corn Scouting by the Eagle Scout

4-H and FFA are usually the youth programs for farming families.  While my farmer husband was very active in FFA, he also grew up in the Boy Scouts of America and advanced to the rank of Eagle Scout and he lives by the motto "Be Prepared."

Being married to an Eagle Scout means that we are always preparing for what comes next.  As  my blogger friend over at Kim's County Line talked about with their wheat the other day, farmer's are always checking the crops to see how they are doing even when they aren't even out of the ground yet...

A week after the corn had been planted, he started looking to see if it was sprouting.  Farmers dig carefully, so they know where how deep the seed was placed by the planter.  See the corn seed at the tip of his pocket knife...

Here's a closer view.  To the left of the seed is the root starting to develop.  To the right of the seed is the shoot or what will become the corn plant above ground.

Pretty excited to watch this year's crop.  Corn likes warm weather, so spring can hurry up and get here and the corn will be out of the ground in no time at all.

-A Kansas Farm Mom