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I call it wild mustard. It gives the hay a better flavor.....lol. Only kidding. This was a field that we no tilled wheat and fescue in after corn. We're taking it out of crops and are going to pasture it. The wheat was sowed late, had too much water on it, and there was a mix up on the fertilizer order, which resulted in not enough being put on this particular field. It's a wonder I even had a good enough stand to cut.

Wheat cut at this stage makes good hay, just takes a while to dry down. I plan on tedding it tomorrow and we'll round bale it Monday.

Well James, it's good to know you're not too old to cut the mustard.

We are rained out here, again.

Looks like you have a bit of infestation with mustard.. A pita, that... We get it here too. For those that wish to get a bale or two of straw for garden mulch, they pay attention to just WHO they get it from.. Nothing worse than a bale contaminated with mustard..

Curious as to whether any of you out there have any issues with Yellow Nutsedge? On the wetter grounds here it can be a miserable sob to get rid of..

It's an issue down here. I spray for it.

The bigger problem is Rice Sedge... That stuff is highly invasive.

I remember Mickey Coleman struggling with nut sedge in his garden. He was going to try spraying with a mixture of molasses, or using dried molasses that He had heard was a fix. Don't know if He ever did, or how it turned out. miles

Damn, I wish I'd written that!

Cheers from Sweden,
John

That looks like the dog leg on the 9th.

Where's the trees?

Sam, we had 1/2” Wednesday night and a little last night NE of Shelby. Ran the seeder up until midnight to finish a section ahead of it.

Ya this field you double seed more then you don’t the crazy hills. My grandpa must have been smoking some real good [bleep] when he decided to break this

HAH.. Those ain't hills, those are gentle slopes compared to the fields I saw last year near Independence, WI.. I literally have NO idea how they plant/harvest anything on those fields w/o rolling the tractors about 6 times before they hit bottom.. I swear they're 45 degrees or more.. Just nuts.


But your pic above of those wide-open spaces looks like pure heaven to me..

This was no till wheat, and the usual practice is to spray and burn down the existing vegetation before planting. That I did not do, as it was late, and I wasn't sure the Roundup would work that well, and besides we originally weren't planning on cutting the wheat for hay. I had drilled fescue with the wheat, and was planning on grazing the wheat, then pasturing it this spring. But, we had an early cold spell which meant that the wheat didn't get big enough, and we didn't get the field fenced, so I decided to cut it for hay after all. There was a lot of cheatgrass in spots too, so this field won't make what it should. I cut another field of wheat on ground that was in tobacco last year, and the two combined should give us enough hay to see us through the winter.

I hate having weeds of any kind in my hay, because it's usually going to mean seeds that get spread. One of our worst weeds around here is wild buttercups in the spring pasture. They're hard to get rid of, because when you spray for them, you'll kill your clover. I sprayed a low rate of 2-4-D last year, which burnt them down, but did not hurt the pasture. They came right back this spring. That's something I've got to figure out how to deal with.

Man these jumps in oil prices have really got stuff crazy around here now. I think we got a mini boom
Coming back. Heard Williston has up to 2000 available jobs. On the farming part closing in on 60 percent done. 10 days or so we’ll have her stuff is drying out incredibly fast going need another shot of rain soon

Good info - thank you.

Yeah, first crop hay will be cut starting this Thursday, I think - and that crop is usually chock full of dandelion growth.. But once that's done and ready for 2nd crop, the alfalfa's quite clean. We also need rain here - haven't had more than .3-.4 since the last 15" of snow melted.. Gettin' very dry.

Have you tried wiping the buttercup?

Filming the neighbor girl.

you boys get a little nervous on a grade? Me too as I rolled a tractor in 1974. Carry on