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Very nice pic! Thanks!

Richard, maybe that's what it was, that or Banvel have a similar affect?

(I know squat about all the different chemicals)

Nice picture Don. Always appreciate the threads about crops and harvesting although I know very little about it. In my mind it represents the best (or what may be left) of Americana and the American spirit.

For several years in the early fifties I went with a wheat harvest crew and back then a field that would put out 20 BPA was very good. All dry land but once in a great while we would hit an irrigated field and get up to around 40 or so. Things have changed, huh.

Cool picture Hunts.
Thanks.

She's gonna be about 20 off here this year.....
It got cooked.

There is a common sense that comes from working the land that cannot be duplicated else where.

Our's might average 20. Never did catch a thunderstorm this Summer, been pretty quiet.

At least, hopefully the protein should be okay with reduced yields.

Mowed/weed-eated around the bins this morning. Imagine we'll bin everything we can, price is way down.


Guys are cutting peas and some winter wheat. Not in full swing yet here, couple weeks.

Sam, dicamba/ Banvel, and it goes by other names as well, might make corn brittle.
Both dicamba, and 2,4,D. are growth regulators, they grow the weeds to death. Some of that may transfer to corn, and cause some brittleness.
I think that is hit, and miss, and lasts for only so long.

We got some big hail in the area the other day.
Peas don't look that much different until you look up close.
Pods are split and all the peas are on the ground.
Lentils got pounded flat.....I mean like can't pick them up no way, flat.
Broke off whole garb plants....
Grain faired better.
Luckily, it was in isolated spots.
You is a farmer, Sam. Always lookin' on the bright side.....(protein)


laffin'.

Richard, I am taking notes!


Wages, hate to hear about the big white combine.


I remember a few 'harvests' like that. Not the way you wanna do it.

Ouch....

pfffffffffttt.....

no mas, no mas.
you win.

That could kill a decent sized animal.



Damn!

Nice pictures of the combines.

thanks. wish I could have got a mile or 2 closer..... thank goodness for 20x zoom.

huntsman22;
Those hailstones certainly drag out some memories for me this hot July afternoon for me Don, thanks for posting the photos even though the memories are bittersweet.

The last year we farmed in Saskatchewan we had a canola crop that was 5' high and looked to be a near record yield too that got smoked with hail about that size. We kept some of them in the freezer for years actually as we'd grown up there and never had imagined them that big.

To what Sam said, there was at least one heifer down the road a bit that was killed by the storm, but she might have piled up in the fence all lathered up running from the storm and then died from the cold induced by the hail that piled up on her.

For sure a whole bunch of chickens and geese died that afternoon and my goodness the hail damage on vehicles and houses in the small town nearby was surreal to say the least. No windows were left on two sides of the houses in town for instance and the siding and shingles were wrecked too.

Anyway Don, if we'd not had that storm turn our canola crop into what looked like a freshly mowed golf course afterward, we'd not have lost everything and subsequently drifted out here to BC. So it did turn out for the best, though at the time it was a tough pill to swallow.

Thanks again for the farming photos sir, I always appreciate folks putting them up. All the best to you in the upcoming week.

Dwayne

Wheat is looking really good in the eastern Dakotas. Winter wheat in SD is averaging over 50 in what has been started.

Not wheat, but here's what our first cut of hay in Southeast Oklahoma is looking like this summer: