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Post by kwestfarms on Jul 18, 2012 13:58:53 GMT -5
rain along with 20 degree cooler temps has arrived for my corn and beans!!! Corn just into tasseling out and was showing heat stress yesterday...started swathing the oats yesterday.....must of helped bring the rain. John
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Post by MarlandS on Jul 22, 2012 8:53:07 GMT -5
We had the 20 degree cooler temps on Friday , no rain but wow things sure seemed nicer . Back up to near 100 for the coming week .
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Post by cousinit on Jul 22, 2012 15:18:01 GMT -5
Don't mean to piss off any folks on here, but my son and I just did the crop walk thing in 95 degree weather. Sweat off 3 pounds. That was the good news. Other good news is the corn looks good. Bad news is we have standing water in the low spots in our new seeding (and the corn). 2 1/3" of rain on Tuesday and still standing rain, after not getting much rain this summer? I was shocked. Boy do we have heavy ground. And the other bad news is the weed spray didn't work at all on the new seeding. Weeds boobs high, and many of them. Someone said weed spray doesn't work as good when it's hot? Is that true?
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Post by JoshuaGA on Jul 22, 2012 15:43:26 GMT -5
Cousinit, if you have corn worth a damn, might ought to consider liquidating your dairy pretty good this fall and shell corn. $8 dollar corn is a pretty good killing as long as you aren't feeding it. Don't know what to tell you on the alfalfa. I am going to plow out a field that didn't establish this fall for wheat or oats I think.
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Post by cousinit on Jul 22, 2012 17:02:28 GMT -5
JoshuaGA, it is tempting, no doubt. But we are too young to retire. What we will do after that? Buy some cows back and start all over? My husband is celebrating his 60th bday Aug 8. We spent 29 years building up this herd from scratch, and to have to give it all up now, surely at a loss, is depressing. We might sell enough cows so that we don't have to purchase much feed.
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Post by kwestfarms on Jul 22, 2012 17:37:22 GMT -5
We were bypassed by the just in time rain today.......finished up with the oats......got 8 drops of rain as we were leaving the field !!!! When you only get .5" rain at a time, it needs to show up every 3 or 4 days. Oats ran fairly well...haave to get it over the scale tomorrow and then do the math...hopefully some rain tonight !!!!! John
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Post by JoshuaGA on Jul 22, 2012 20:03:00 GMT -5
JoshuaGA, it is tempting, no doubt. But we are too young to retire. What we will do after that? Buy some cows back and start all over? My husband is celebrating his 60th bday Aug 8. We spent 29 years building up this herd from scratch, and to have to give it all up now, surely at a loss, is depressing. We might sell enough cows so that we don't have to purchase much feed. No answer for you. I know though, it would be extremely tempting to have critters that didn't love corn so much. Been contemplating going into dairying, although what I am looking at at this time is grazing cows, actually looking at jumping off the whole cliff and going as a seasonal dairy, milk Sept-June, dry July and Aug, obviously lots of kinks still to work out of the system, but it looks the most workable and a damn site less cost on the front end. Time will tell how it will work if it works, but the numbers are favorable at the moment. Shall see. |
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Post by wheatfarmer on Jul 22, 2012 22:01:13 GMT -5
Don't mean to piss off any folks on here, but my son and I just did the crop walk thing in 95 degree weather. Sweat off 3 pounds. That was the good news. Other good news is the corn looks good. Bad news is we have standing water in the low spots in our new seeding (and the corn). 2 1/3" of rain on Tuesday and still standing rain, after not getting much rain this summer? I was shocked. Boy do we have heavy ground. And the other bad news is the weed spray didn't work at all on the new seeding. Weeds boobs high, and many of them. Someone said weed spray doesn't work as good when it's hot? Is that true? Is that standing, bending over or sagging? Second thought, I am pretty sure I don't want to know. |
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Post by cousinit on Jul 22, 2012 23:00:53 GMT -5
wheatfarmer, standing. ;D
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Post by 420 on Jul 23, 2012 13:06:15 GMT -5
Easy,fellas she is mine, I have had a crush since she was nodaddy.
I bet those weeds were 5 ft tall and she is 5 ft 6.
Baby^^
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Post by Dave-ECIA on Jul 23, 2012 15:33:09 GMT -5
Easy,fellas she is mine, I have had a crush since she was nodaddy. I bet those weeds were 5 ft tall and she is 5 ft 6. Baby^^ If her boobs were 6" from the top of her head...... either she has REALLY perky breasts, or she's standing on her head.  |
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Post by 420 on Jul 23, 2012 15:42:06 GMT -5
I always heard after you been married for a while there's no head.
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Post by wheatfarmer on Jul 23, 2012 21:51:02 GMT -5
I always heard after you been married for a while there's no head. I believe that belongs to the male of the species, not a female using boobs as a yardstick........................ugh, there is another ugly thought. |
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Post by 420 on Jul 24, 2012 9:58:05 GMT -5
Boobs is Boobs,on women they all got their good points.
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Post by Mark (EC,IN) on Jul 24, 2012 13:38:58 GMT -5
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;D 