CROPS
Alfalfa, Corn, Beans, Fruit & Hay
In addition to our registered British White Cattle we farm mostly
irrigated land where our main crops are corn, soy beans and alfalfa.
We will be adding more later. For now you can see one of our corn
fields in the background of the picture below. This was a pen of steers we were feeding
out on our home grown feed. Click on the picture to see a larger version.
The performance on this pen of cattle was way above average. The picture was taken in
August 1995.
Follow a pictorial tour of part of our Farming experiences in 1999. (2001 pictures, Click Here) We are considered a small family farm as opposed to a larger Corporate Farm. Click on the thumbnails below to see a larger picture.
First picture on left shows a good crop of Alfalfa Hay about ready to cut.
Second and third pictures are after it was cut and the floods came. Fourth and fifth
pictures are baling hay in large round bales. This is a typical "Farmer
Opportunity" but not the preferred way to put up hay. It appears that we grew the
Alfalfa, we mowed it, we washed it and then baled it. Hard to believe but we usually
irrigate our crops.
Baling Hay again with Center Pivot Irrigation system visible in background.
Left picture shows baler opening to release bale, right picture shows bale rolling away
from baler before door closes. Bales weigh up to 1800 pounds. The Bohaty Family Farmstead is in background.
Three pictures taken during planting and one of the young corn as it is
beginning to grow. Planting was done eight rows per pass and each grain of seed corn was
spaced about six inches apart. Looks like a pretty good stand but a long way to harvest.
Truck on left is getting a load of 1,000 bushels of 1998 corn. Corn was
stored in grain bin since 1998 harvest waiting for a price increase that did not come. The
corn will be hauled to the local grain elevator to be marketed. Second picture shows Walter cultivating the Soy Beans in early July 1999. Next
pictures are Nancy in the Beans and standing near the corn, early July, just before the
corn starts tasselling.
It does dry out in the summer in Nebraska. Two pictures on left show how we
Irrigate. First is Gravity flow on Soy Beans from a gated pipe that is laid along the ends
of the rows. This pipe has to be picked up before harvest and laid again the next spring.
Second is a Center Pivot irrigation system. It pivots around a center point and irrigates
by delivering the water from overhead sprinklers. It does not have to be removed from the
field each year but is much more expensive than the gravity system. Two pictures on right
are Walter, late July 1999, Beans beginning to bloom and Corn tasseled out. Corn looks to
be only 7 to 7 1/2 feet tall this year. Last year Walt had the tallest corn at the Butler
County Fair. It was high as an Elephants' eye, 12 feet tall.
These are pictures of Scott and one of his FFA projects. Checking out his
prize winning Strawberries on the left, can't tell by looking, you have to eat a few. Won
a purple ribbon at the County Fair and was chosen to go to State. Pictures on right show
Scott checking out his Peach Trees (center) and Pear Tree on right. Notice you can check
green peaches and pears by looking, you don't have to taste.
This picture shows another experience farmers are often faced with. We are
happy to report that this picture was not taken on our farm. It was Grayson County, Texas
in June 1999. These are Grasshoppers on a sidewalk. They were this thick over hundreds of
acres and they did not leave much vegetation behind them.
Bohaty British Whites
Walter & Nancy Bohaty
1371 - 42 Road
Bellwood, NE 68624-2429
402-367-4741
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