Aaron Cooper

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Name: Aaron Cooper
Date registered: January 18, 2012

Latest posts

  1. Organic Feed — November 24, 2023
  2. Fertilizing Organic Wheat in Early February — February 11, 2019
  3. Late Planted Wheat — January 27, 2019
  4. Row Crop Flaming — January 20, 2019
  5. Organic Soybean Roasting — January 16, 2013

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Organic Feed

We have completed our organic handler certification for animal feed. Please view the products page for current price list.

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Fertilizing Organic Wheat in Early February

The first week of February had highs in the 50’s and 60’s and we hadn’t had any significant rain for a couple weeks. Wheat and barley comes out of dormancy with sustained temperatures that high. It needs a small amount of fertilizer to feed on and encourage tillering (when the plant makes multiple stalls) which …

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Late Planted Wheat

Nu East wheat planted December 17th.  The field has had many inches of rain on it since then and it is not one of my better drained fields.  Where water is not standing, the wheat is just popping out of the ground.  I’m sure yield will suffer but at least the field is salvageable.  Hopefully …

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Row Crop Flaming

I built a 12 row, 30 inch row crop flamer last year (matches the 12 row planter I bought a year ago). I used a kit from Flame Engineering. I set it up so there is 1 torch per row set directly over the row and angled to the back. A lot of flamers are …

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Organic Soybean Roasting

All of our Organic Soybeans were roasted by Horst Grain Roasting. The roaster is mounted on the back of the truck and has input and output augers attached. These roasted Organic Soybeans will be an ingredient in the feed we will be making soon.

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On Farm Feed Making Using Transitional Grain

We’re starting another year of feed making. With little demand for certified organic feed, we’ve been making feed using our transitional grain for many years now.  This grain is grown exactly the same way as the certified organic grain. The only difference is that the land on which it is grown hasn’t been chemical free …

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Fall Harvest Time!

Much of our Fall harvest has been completed.  Corn is in the bin, our 8 weeks of string bean harvest was over near the end of October, sweet potatoes have been dug and are curing, and soybeans are in the field ready to harvest this week.

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