Did I hear in the third video that the reason the cows won't drink from the pond is that it's a bit salty?
Not totally sure yet. We sent off a water sample this morning. There is a lab a couple towns over in Big Sandy.
If it turns out that the water is indeed bad, I am still not going to apologize to the cows. They got an ass chewing coming most of the time.
It can be a real heart break on these dry years. Some folks rely on stock ponds, and sometimes they go bad. Like kill your cows bad. They you got miles of grass and no water!
If you are half clever and three quarters dumb you haul water like me.
Guys in our neck of the woods lost a lot of cattle a couple years ago. Educated minds said it was the water after we had a long dry spell. I believe I heard what exactly was in the water, but I sure don't remember now. Along with dead stock, a lot more dry cows than normal.
We might get the results in a day or two. I will make sure to post the results here.
That was my Dad's first nice truck. Before that he was using old IH's.
The big IH did not have what they call a "working fifth", where there is only like 250 rpm between 4th and 5th.
The Pete does have a working fifth. It was always a little dicey trying to figure out which was which. Plus the IH's 4th gear was over and up, where the Pete was over and down.
I've got a big GM straight six in the barn that I cut out of a 63 before scrapping. It had been rebuilt and then parked. I'm pretty sure it's the same engine behind the school busses that most of us rode.
Originally Posted by 16penny
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
Kingston, that corn is shorter than it should be. The edges are really short because the fertilizer guys ran a rotary machine and I think the edges didn't the full dose of nitro.
But the entire field is behind simply because we had to flood it to get it sprouted. Had it planted on time but the ground had been pre-worked and there wasn't enough moisture on top to get it all going. Waited around for a couple weeks hoping for a rain while we were flooding alfalfa but the rain never came. Sucked flooding a field with hardly anything growing on it but we had no other choice. Minimal plants growing makes the water run faster and you don't get a nice even spread. And we were worried about a big heat wave coming right after watering. That can create a hard crust on the surface and the corn has trouble breaking through.
In this country the old saying for corn is knee high by the Fourth of July. Most of that corn might have been 6" tall a month ago, most of it is must be 5-6' tall now. Hope we luck out and get a late freeze....
And normally we'd have that hay barley up and baled about 3-4 weeks ago as well. Screwed up year.
Sammo, thanks for the explanation. I'd never heard of flooding a field to get sprout, I wouldn't have imagined you'd have the infrastructure or water resource, petty cool. When so much of the industry has homogenized, the variety of farming practices, techniques, and processes that still exist is pretty amazing. That's why farming will always be farming. Around here, the old adage 'knee-high by the Fourth of July' is also the benchmark.
Originally Posted by 16penny
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
Has to be done, and one can disperse their utilization patterns. Is tough on equipment if one's roads are not up to snuff. Cuts into ones profit margin just a bit too.
Kingston, we flood irrigate about 270 acres every year. Pump water out of the Missouri River and run it up and into ditches. The fields are all leveled and have border dikes to control the water.
Normally we flood the alfalfa once and the corn twice. This year the alf with get 3x and the corn 3x. A lot of work(compared to center pivots) but that's just the way it is and we are fortunate that so far the river is holding up.
1minute, we've got an old 12E Cat road grader that comes in pretty handy on those roads!
