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Why Are These Hay Bales Smoking Like Crazy?

5.00pm - Saturday 6th December 2025 15,768

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Winter is coming fast, the ground is frozen, and we’ve still got over a thousand acres of field work left — so today the whole crew is running wide open. I’m fueling up the Case IH 620 Quadtrac, greasing it, and trying to figure out why the hydraulic rams on the Lemken aren’t staying in sync. Turns out the cylinders were actually on the wrong sides… so we swap them, re-level the machine, top off the hydraulic oil, and get back to ripping through heavy manure ground.

Meanwhile, everyone else is full throttle across the farm. Josh is chiseling spud ground in the cold Idaho morning, Trevor is cutting the last crop of hay, and baling with our new fiber stacker attachment — and yeah, some of those bales are smoking hot. Thankfully we got them moved far away so nothing catches fire.

We also check in on the guys hauling manure, fixing blown tires, battling mud, and trying to beat the storm rolling in. Christopher is planting winter wheat with the new Lemken Solitaire DT900, smoothing frost-covered fields as the sun comes up. And later we head over to see how the rented ground of corn stalks is working up — our first time ever turning corn ground into future grain ground.

It’s a hectic, muddy, frozen, nonstop day trying to get everything done before winter locks us out, but that’s farming. Come along for the ride!

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