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Travis-I was 10 years old at the time. Maybe I wasn't as strong as I should have been. A dozen traps in the pack was about all I could handle.

Great post. We have things in common.

Well, laundry and dishes are done.

Guess I'll get schitfaced.

CHEERS!

I have some cut.

The people who got rain have their wheat cut, mostly.

The people who did not get any rain are still waiting. Lots of wheat left to cut in the area. All dark northern spring of course.

Soybeans dont grow here.

Are you guys a no till operation? We hear about some of that and I find it interesting.

It just surprised me because we're up by the border, all wheat is off around us and up past winnepeg.

Sort of a low till type of operation.

I did try the straight no till for a few years and it did not turn out for me. Not because its a bad system, but because I was not good at it.

I am no good at spraying fields when I cant see any green!


Now we do a mixture of spraying, tillage and cover crops.

Trying to work the soil as little as possible.

We try not to fallow any land.

Spring wheat?

The winter wheat came off here starting in July.

Not uncommon to harvest spring wheat up here through September.



We were late this year waiting for the snow to melt and the fields to dry out. Delayed later still by the ground conditions.....it was too hard to get the drill into the ground. A rain then would have helped.


Our crop was slow to ripen because of the drought. Just the opposite of what you would think!

It burnt up a month and a half ago and I thought I would be done early.....then it just quit ripening.


Been a crazy year.

Spring wheat. all crops were in super early this year, like risky early for frost that's still possible in june but it worked out well.

I don't farm but I live in farm country and have farmer friends so I speak a little farmer. It's interesting to me, all the strategy that's in play. Interesting business.

Maybe that field isn’t in Texas....

Kingston,

Maybe NOT but there are PLENTY of rattle-tails in WI, NY State & everywhere else that I was ever stationed in the Army from east to west coast. ====> Pit vipers like to hunt for rodents in hay fields.

On our farm, we have often "baled up" both rattlers & copperheads. = It pays to LOOK before bucking each bale. - Saves quick trips to the ER, as snakes don't enjoy being reaped/baled.

yours, tex

I’d have to burn the field if there was snakes.

tzone,

IF we burned our hayfields because of the snakes that are ALWAYS therein, we would NEVER have GREAT Coastal Bermuda hay for sale to the horseracing industry.

BTW, this year because of plenty of rain we will get a THIRD CUTTING. = WOO HOO.

yours, tex

Snake fed horses are the fastest horses.

northern dave,

Chicken-fried rattler-fed Texicans are HAPPY TEXICANS.

yours, tex

Negatron, not yet. Mine so far have been unmolested, but neighbor had his wiped out. Haven't seen any coons here in my immediate vicinity, thankfully. I've Ace on speed dial to left-jab any mofo comes in to get my flock o egg birds.

LMAO.

Everything's more dangerous when you're a Texan.

deflave,

Fyi, ONE of the best means that my late Uncle fixed his son (my 1st cousin) & I was precipitated by a "buzzing haybale. = Randy heard the buzz, went to investigate & returned with a 5.5 foot rattle-tail that was dressed-out at about 10#.

When we got close to the farmhouse, the AROMA drifting out the door literally made my mouth water. = Chicken-fried rattler, fried potatoes, baked yellow squash casserole, home made cornbread muffins & iced tea ====> YUMMY.

yours, tex

That's the way I was raised not too far from you in Madison County, 4 miles southeast of Winterset on 46 acres and half the County to explore on a Sunday afternoon on our ponies. Unfortunately, Mom, Dad and my youngest brother are gone. One brother lives in Utah and one is still at the house on the farm. I'm trying to keep the farm for my kids (the only grand kids) so they can get a piece of what I grew up with.

I rent out the farm ground we used to keep milk cows and grew hay and corn on. The old barn and corn crib is gone. My kids will never know what it's like to have a corn cob fight with their brothers and the neighbor kids or ride them ornery ponies bareback. We used to go to town every Saturday night. It was a big event for us. We stayed until Tim's Club Cafe' on the east side of the square closed at 11:00 p.m. and then went home tired and ready for bed. We couldn't go to town until Dad got to watch Hee Haw on TV. When we came home we watched the Porter Waggoner Show before going to bed.

I live in Ankeny now (60,000 souls) with a Walmart 1.7 miles away. I'd trade it all for 1969 and another Saturday night at Tim's Club Cafe' with Martha and Whitey McDonald and one more glass of fountain Coca Cola before getting into the Ford station wagon and making that drive 4 miles home. Was it Steelie who said we can't go back?? Unfortunately, he is right. That's the real heart breaker.

kwg

KWG, how far from Peru, Iowa are you?