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I should be planting right now....

300 H and H

300 H and H

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Last year we were finishing up the corn and getting ready for soy on my B day. Not so this year, along with all of my neighbors and lots of farms acrosss the midwest. The weather has turned from dry to wet and cold. I hope we get aa break in it soon, and are able to plant on time. We have another week or two before yeild losses mount up for late planting.

As farmers we're all in the same boat, and I know that up north they have much more snow, and I feel lucky about that. Just hard to pace the floor again waiting and wondering when the chance will come. In my world mother nature seems to hold all the cards...I must dance with her, not her with me. I have no choice in the matter. After 18 years with my lovely wife, I think I understand that this is a natural situation in my life. :whistling::yum::flowers:

I suppose many of us here know the feeling of waiting, wondering, and hoping.... Some times we win, some times we loose. We just hope that we are able to make it from year to year, and to retirement in a comfortable fashion...Good health and sound mind still intact..

I am sure the weather will turn for the better at some point. We will get the crop planted and the next serious of issues will envelope my thinking, as this will be forgotten. But for today it is my first and only issue, and it tuggs at me each day. Please let the spring begin!:clap:

Regards, Kirk
 
Guys that got their ground tilled early are out planting since the temps and sun are warming it up quick. We were almost too wet for a lot of the bottom ground but they are going full tilt now. This is about normal planting time around here. Last year was a fluke as most all corn was planted by the end of April and a lot was already up and growing.
 
Last year was extremely dry and this year extremely wet. As Kirk has indicated,,,,it is the nature of nature to be inconvenient.

Most City folks do not understand where their food comes from, that it isn't packaged in plastic after a farmer just throws some seed in the ground.


Hard work, patience and risk,,,the life of farming. But thankfuly, most farmers would not have any other lifestyle.

My hat is off to every one of them.
 
When I was a youngster my mother told me that gambling was not a good way to make a living.........and dad told me farming was the best life style..............it semed to me some one was fibing to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:yum:
 
Do not feel like the Lone Ranger, Kubota has hydraulic pump out and the needed part is on back order and I could be plowing.
 
300 H and H said:
We just hope that we are able to make it from year to year, and to retirement in a comfortable fashion...Good health and sound mind still intact..

Regards, Kirk
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As a kid I recall that living to 72 was a big deal. Nowadays, most folks will be out-living their money. So pinch those pennies and put one away, because based upon the weather, global warming ain't gonna' get 'cha, either.
 
My b-day this year got pounded with 12" of new snow.

I bought new batteries for the tractor & backhoe they are still sitting on the bench...

One warm day in the last several weeks & used it to go to town to stock up on vittles.

I did get some revenge today as I drove the PU thru some snow piles that shrank from 12' to 2' on my way out to the coffee shop... otherwise cold 30's and rainy...
 
FrancSevin;607765 Most City folks do not understand where their food comes from said:
u cannot be serious.
huh~ i think u may wanna speak to those that have city gardens. in the yard 5 stairs from my main porch. several others have gardens, now, here.
&, we have many local food providers. city-dwellers also have community gardeners that allot land to us silly 'ol city-dwellers. :flowers:
i knew how to plant & can food by 5.
u ought not rip on a population u apparantly know minimally.
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After tonight we hope to start planting out a lot of things. She planted the onion sets while I was in the hospital and if I ain't hurting too bad tomorrow the peas will go in. Still pretty early to put some things out up here. Most locals wait till almost Memorial day to transplant things. All the greenhouses are selling stuff like mad since they opened this week.
 
Finishing corn planting this evening. It is about 10 days later than ideal, but with some small amount of extra heat this summer, we'll be just fine. The past two summers it was warmer than average..

Soybeans are for tommarrow, and untill who knows when.. It sure beats pacing the floors!

Regards, Kirk
 
In am Ironic twist of mother-natures-ways. corn is in 2 hrs north of here and 2hrs south. Every body around here is pacing.....

In the not complaining dept. I only cut my grass once so far this spring and that is really strange.

We feed a lot of cattle in these parts and the alphafa (hay) fields are really hammered from the dry,cold,wet,colder,wet,colderyet winter we had. even the wheat is struggling.

no doubt who's incharge.

Mike
 
It's now a month since the last post, and nearly two since my original post....

And I still have two soybean fields left to plant. It's crunch time, and we had a good go last week till Sunday. Today we had another 1.25" of rain and strong winds. Trees torn up, my chainsaw is in the back of my truck for clearing away a tree that fell on one of the farm sites, on the edge of town.

This is one of those years you would love to forget, wettest May on record, but probably will remember, just as 2012 was so terribly dry.

Won't have to pay as much in taxes, this year anyway, if there is some thing good to think about. Glad the debt is small.

Kinda pissy though.....

Regards, Kirk
 
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It is not boding well for you sir. I do hope you can get beans in.

This is the fisrt year since I started growing tomatoes, (1955) that I did not have ripe ones for the July fourth BBQ. mine are just now setting fruit.

No Cukes

No Zucchini.

No green beans

No Peppers.


But my income does not depend on my crops. You have my sympathy and prayers friend.
 
Well Kirk i'm not making my money off the land like you but June is almost over, and I made my first attempt to get back to my gold claim. I had to conquer a shield of ice 6 feet deep at the trail head to get in. the water finally dropped so I could cross the river I had a successful trip but it's going to be a while before I get a suction dredge back there. on the plus side the weather was nice on Saturday and several days last week it got into the 80's. its going to take a loot more of that to melt the ice and dry the trail.
 
I just mowed half my pasture till a shower came through. It is damn hot and muggy and won't get better till Friday. They want 91 today and even though the rain cooled it a little the moisture just made the sauna effect worse. Won't get any hay cut this week unless it dries out and my neighbor figures out what is shorted in his 3 year old Massey. I ran the alternator to a shop to get it checked yesterday but when he ran it a few minutes last night it melted the tach wire.
 
We finally finished up late last night. It feels good, but not as good as if it had been a month ago, as it should have been. Soybeans had better get with it and grow like they never have to make beans by frost....

Spraying for weeds now takes center stage.

Regards, Kirk
 
Looks like the 1st hay cutting is July 4 this year, if I can get 2 dry days in a row. Most years 7/4 is the second cutting, maybe a third after labor day.
 
Grizz,

My Dad is up your way to a wedding. He says there are lots of corn stalk fields left from last year that haven't been touched at all. Most of the corn is in, but very few soybeans. Must be worse up your way....

We have a little hay up, but lots more to go...

Regards, Kirk
 
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