Rachelle and I just got back from a week visiting her family in New Hampton, Iowa. You know, up in the northeastern part of the state, between Charles City and Spillville. Her uncle has several hundred acres of soy beans and corn, but I was mostly interested in the hog raising operation. He just had a new, state of the art hog barn built (not pictured here; this is the old fashioned hog yard) that holds 1200 pigs. Seriously, 1200 pigs in one barn. And there were another 2800 or so scattered in other barns and pens. Speaking of which, I wish I'd known what a pig-pen looked like when I was living with my mom. All that talk about my room looking like a pig-pen was a load of crap. The pigs are much cleaner. Anyway, it seems that there is much, much more to farming than putting some seeds in the ground and waiting for them to grow. And Bill didn't seem to impressed with my one (1) ear of corn that grew in my backyard last year. Not a good crop in Orangevale. More pictures will follow showing the different parts of the farm. Stay tuned...
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