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Farm Tour
We offer 3 different ways to tour our farms: descriptions, overhead views, and a photo tour of typical features. Come and explore:
| Descriptions Of Our Farms, By Area: (choose a city below) |
Brown City • Carsonville • Yale • Hastings • Silverwood • Saint Johns
| Photo Tour: (click on photos for larger view) |
Some great sorghum with Susie in the picture for scale. |
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A view of a good sized patch of excellent sorghum. |
Both of the above pictures show sorghum at it's best. We use sorghum in our habitat program to provide winter food and cover, and for all season long cover on farms where the cover provided by the crops will go with the harvest. For example , corn and soy bean fields. Patches of sorghum like these can be found on many of our farms:
1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10,11,13,17,18,21,27,28,29,40,60,61.
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When the weed control is less than perfect, sorghum can look like this. It's fine for the fall, but the weeds won't hold up to the winter as well as better sorghum. Life is a series of compromises, and while it lasts, you will be hard pressed to find a more scenic and "birdy" looking spot than this one. It' on farm #14
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Wheat stubble and sorghum combined make wonderful habitat for game-birds. Cover like this can be found on farms 7,8,14, and 20.
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The Farm Service Agency of USDA encourages Filter Strips like this one to remove contaminants from run off water. The extra income we provide for the use of this great cover makes it even more attractive to the farm owners, so while we enjoy, we are also contributing to the improvement of water quality. You'll find this type of filter strips along the ditches on farms 1,4,5,7,8,9,10, and 11 now, and more in future seasons. |
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The CRP acreage at Farmland has been seeded with a special recipe of plants which provide superior game-bird cover. At least some of this type of cover can be found on most of our farms, and on the farms listed, most of the cover is like this.
Farms 1,9,12, 30,31,32,60,61.
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