Canada, U.S. Farmers Rival Corn Field Heights

Jul 05, 2013

Canada, U.S. Farmers Rival Corn Field Heights

Most of the corn in Canada and the United States was knee high by the fourth of July this year, but only in certain regions.

Farms.com asked growers to submit their Fourth of July corn pictures through Twitter on Thursday and to our delight we have sixteen photos from across certain parts of Canada and the U.S. There were some pretty impressive corn heights, but regardless of how high the corn was - it was evident that farmers were proud of their growing crop.

These savvy farmers shared their corn pictures with a number of the submissions boasting about their corn variety and providing details about when the corn was planted, along with estimating how tall they thought their corn was.

It was amazing to see the collection of corn heights and scope of varieties farmers planted. Kudos to the participating growers for sharing their stories and pictures with us and we hope you enjoy a short video that we put together showcasing corn fields from across North America.

You can also see a photo album of each entry on Ontario Agriculture that provides the Twitter handle information for each grower along with other details such as location, variety and estimated height. The photos were predominantly
from Ontario, with submissions also from Alberta, Illinois and California.

Click here to view the video.

Video: Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

Indoor sheep farming in winter at pre-lambing time requires that, at Ewetopia Farms, we need to clean out the barns and manure in order to keep the sheep pens clean, dry and fresh for the pregnant ewes to stay healthy while indoors in confinement. In today’s vlog, we put fresh bedding into all of the barns and we remove manure from the first groups of ewes due to lamb so that they are all ready for lambs being born in the next few days. Also, in preparation for lambing, we moved one of the sorting chutes to the Coveralls with the replacement ewe lambs. This allows us to do sorting and vaccines more easily with them while the barnyard is snow covered and hard to move sheep safely around in. Additionally, it frees up space for the second groups of pregnant ewes where the chute was initially.