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Mulchivator earlier today.

thing thats what we saw when hog hunting, that you were wondering what it was used for.

Whatever that thing was, it was Texas sized. The wheels were a much larger diameter than on a standard cultipacker/mulcher.

I can’t believe I didn’t take a picture of it.

Just getting started planting north central ND

Drove from my place in bottineau 3 hrs to Jamestown (south) and saw two tractors pulling disc to dry the top out some. No seeding or anything else. Ed k

A little tale about the steel wheeled tractor. When my dad was a teenager he and a brother rode the train to Iowa. They then drove a tractor with steel wheels back to North Dakota on the Canadian border. He said the lucky one got to walk while the other drove. A little rough. The good ole days. Ed k

Nope....but by 4th July we'll be damned nigh close to harvest! "Knee high by 4th July" is the saying over in Wisconsin also!!

Sam-I live just south of the Twin Cities here in Mn. Not seeing any tractors working in the fields yet, but we've been dry for close to two weeks now. I gotta think they'll be at if this week if this weather holds. Still a few patches of snow in the shady spots, but that ought to all be gone this week. Still ice on some of the area lakes.

3 air seeders planting wheat in surrey township today. Ward county

Start planting corn tomorrow morning in southeast ND.

Supposed to be dry here this week. The planters will be rolling. We are almost 10 inches of rain above normal for the year, and it's really delayed the corn planting here. Most of the corn is planted by now.

I would like to thank all of you that farm and ranch. I’m sure it’s hard and financially uncertain. You are dependent on things like rain that you have no control over. You all are the backbone of our country!

God bless you and you families

Jim;
Top of the morning to you sir, it's a semi-sunny day here on this side of the medicine line - looks promising at this juncture anyway Jim, and I trust you all can say the same.

When I read some of you and Sam's posts and see both of your videos sometimes its like I've stepped into a time warp - in a good way I must add.

I know my late father met/knew George Morris and if you've ever had any Leon machinery - that was started by Leon Malinowski in Yorkton, SK - I knew him well enough to say hello, but he knew the two guys I farmed with - brother and cousin - much better. We used to do some testing on prototypes for Leons back in the '70's.

Holy smoke Jim - the '70's..... I am old and no, I don't expect you or Sam recall even the '80's that much!

Anyway I do appreciate the pair of you taking my mind off of the present vagaries of life from time to time.

I hope the spring goes well for you both. We're having a late one here, but despite a much colder than normal calving season up here, my rancher buddy had a good crop of fresh calves - so much so that they beat us old guys up pretty good when we branded two weeks ago.

All the best to you all.

Dwayne

Disking yesterday.

Seeding going on in SW ND on Sunday. Spring wheat, I assume.

Way south-west of you, but my son is helping his part time boss chop and disc his 640 to prepare it for corn.

Our 20 acres has been land planed, waiting for the layout guys to set the straws indicating where the Vines will be planted. We'll go out and remove the ones near the power poles, ends where we need 30' for the Harvester to pick the grapes for clearance, and in 3-4 weeks we'll have the stakes driven, crossarms bolted on and then wires for the drip and for the Quad support for the vines.

This is a "once every 40 years" deal, so it's my last turn replanting the vineyard, unless they have a way to keep me alive until age 100, lol.

Great to see all the big equipment, ton's of hours and crossed fingers/ praying you-all do to feed the nation. My hat is off to the farmers of America.

Allen

Thanks Dewayne.

I use a Morris air seeder and like it.

Morris and Leon were both popular down here.

Had to take a little nap today while rolling hay fields.

I finished up pre-working the feed grounds/hay barley fields on Sunday. And then we got the first 'big' rain of the year, an entire .25" of welcome moisture.


Guys are going around here planting wheat and garbanzo beans. We're going to have our dry land wheat ground pre-sprayed later this week.


It was cows all day here. Got the first 50 calves out of the 2 year olds branded this afternoon. Hopefully get them hauled out soon and then start in on the bigger bunches. And try to squeeze in some more field work as well....

No rest for you Sam!


I saw that Roosevelt and Valley were in a red flag warning earlier. Crazy!