Harvest 2017

Kale Avenue

Clayton County

Iowa

 

Today I post a series of pictures that I have had since Last Fall and I getting around to updating this Blog.  These pictures were taken on My Nephew's Farm on 18 October 2017.

 

 

You have most likely noted that this Farm Equipment is Green.  My Nephew works at John Deere to support his farming habit.  The Grain Carts are manufactured by Brett.



 







Timely Update 2017 Pictures and Projects

 

2017 Farm Kid Reflections

 

I often think back to my Farm Days and in 2017 I had the opportunity to find some old pictures and also obtained a few new ones to help me recall these days from my youth.

 

 

Admittedly this is a recent picture which was taken during the Summer of 2017.  I put on a straw hat and my Carhart Shirt and observed some of the beautiful Hydranges in the Garden at my Home in Georgia.
 

In May of 2017 I visited my Hometown, Guttenberg, Iowa.  While there my Nephew stopped by and I had to take this picture of his three Boys.  They proudly posed by their Dad's Ram, which seems to be the appropriate pick-up for modern Farm Boys.  Of course, even though I live in a City in Georgia I also appreciate my RAM.

This is a picture of My Dad and it is most likely from early 1940.  He is standing at the porch at the home his Parents built in the 1918/1919 time frame. 

This is the Home I was born in in 1940.  Look close and you can see my Dad sitting on the steps.

The young Sailor on the left is my brother John Paul.  The family picture next to it has all my Siblings.  The Young boy seated on the left end is John Paul.  My Dad and Mom are also seated.  I cannot recall who My Dad is holding.  This picture must have been taken in the Mid 1960s when I and My Brother David were both in the Navy.

These are the Farm Pictures from an era when Tractors were not generally used by Farmers. 

This is a picture of two of My Dad's Brother's spreading lime on the soil.

 



This picture shows running ear corn up into the corncrib.  My Uncle Ernst had the two row John Deere Mounted Corn Picker.  He and My Dad worked together to harvest the corn each Fall.  This is the scene on My Uncle's Farm on Clayton Ridge, just North of Guttenberg, Iowa.  I believe this was in the late 1940s or early 1950s. 

This post has allowed me to recall the wonderful memories of My Farm Youth in Northeast Iowa.  

2016 Visit to the Younger Iowa Tractor Boys

 

August 2016 Visit to Iowa

 

Admittedly I am not a young Iowa Tractor Boy, however I do return to Iowa each Summer to visit Siblings and renew my appreciation of all things Wonderful about Iowa.

 

Here I am modeling the corn crop at My Sister's Farm
near Monona, Iowa

One of many restored tractors that I saw at the 2016
Iowa State Fair

The Model 300 which I operated with a Model 76
Combine as a 13 or 14 year old Farm Kid on
the Farm that My Dad had rented to raise oats.

I was impressed with this massive crop sprayer which had a folding
boom which when extended covered 120 feet.

One of four track systems on the tractor that is featured next.

I viewed the price tag on this model and learned that I would
have to have well over $600,000.00 to acquire this model.
 

Great Fourth of July

Parade

4 July 2015

Garnavillo. Iowa

These pictures explain themselves.  This Parade and the Fourth of July Celebration in Garnavillo has been happening for 42 years.  I am impressed with this event and it is appropriate to post it here in the Young Iowa Tractor Boys Blog.  You can also view other Parade Pictures at:

  alansviews.blogspot.com

These pictures celebrate the Past and Present of Farming in Clayton County.  Citizens from the entire county particpate.  I would estimate that over 5000 viewed this Parade which is celebrated in a small Iowa town of just over 800 citizens.