Another week goes by and it only seems like a day. I love this time of year. As a rookie blogger, though, I can see I need to get a set time each day to keep up or a week can fly by just like that.

I did figure a way to get a huge HD flip video file on my blog. Rather than posting the actual video I can leave a link for you to click on and watch it.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6472871/Blank%20Slate%20video%20for%20uploading%20May%2015%202010/Planting%20the%20Blank%20Slate%2060%20on%20May%203rd%2C%202010.mp4

Is it really Wednesday already? Finding time to blog is not as easy as I thought it would be.

We planted the Blank Slate 60 to corn on Monday. I’ll get more pictures and hopefully some video up soon.

My quest to build organic matter has now officially begun, albeit in an unusual manner. We plowed around the outside edge of the field to reclaim some of the encroaching fenceline, and we did some tillage across the whole field to get the rows running the way we wanted.

Hopefully we can use strip tillage this fall and every year from now on for seedbed preparation and part of our nutrient application. We’ll complete the nutrient program with Sure-K, Pro-Germinator, and micros in the furrow or potentially in a two-by-two application depending on the results of our fertility trials this year. We haven’t really worked with a true “Blank Slate” on our farm before where the fertility and organic matter are both so low. This will be a fun learning experience over the coming years.

This should be the first year of a continuous corn program I plan to follow for a long, long time. A high residue crop coupled with a strip-till program will begin the building process for organic matter. I hope to find a local source of manure as well to speed the process up.