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Yeah they are making good hay here this year as well.

Getting ready for a second cutting soon.

Not much hay has been cut around here. Slow start to spring and for the past 2 weeks we've been in an unusual prolonged wet spell.


Our hay barley was planted on time and looks okay. It got a little drought stressed earlier but should make a 1-2 tons acre. Super nice and green and just heading out. Be ready to cut as soon as the weather settles down and the ground dries up.


Alfalfa looks rough, we had/have weevils and being the earthy types we didn't spray. Don't want to kill any bees and give the birds cancer so we probably lost 1/3 of the crop.



We should have been seeding wheat a month before we did but got caught up in calving, branding and hauling pairs out to grass. And we were late doing that!

Luckily we had a decent amount of hay left in the stack and it sure is nice to let the hills grow for awhile before you turn cows out.



Neighbors early seeded spring wheat looks great. We have a helluva stand coming on and great sub moisture so hopefully July doesn't turn into an ovem and burn it up.....




Took the four wheeler down to the corn yesterday. Ankle high by the 4th of July.....

And we only grow about 40-50 acres of silage corn, not much. Just enough to make a guy worry....... At least it's up and growing!

crops look good in North Central Florida.

Cut some Triticale this week. We need some rain. The wheat’s starting to stress.

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That looked pretty nice!

It's great here
Everybody is paid NOT to grow rice and there is plenty of demand for the crawfish and cows that cover those fields.

Dang....that triticale sure produces!

The corn crop here looks about as good as I have ever seen it.

Sam and Jim, that 40 acres had some irrigation until the creek stopped running around June 1st. It grew about 2ft in the last 3 weeks. Where I’m cutting it’s over 5’ and probably averaged 4’6”. The 40 acres north of it isn’t irrigated and is about 4’.

I kicked the windrow to see how heavy it was and didn’t even get through it. Really wet so we’ll see how it dries out.

I was going to ask you how long you think it'll take to dry out.

It'll be awhile I'm sure.


Looks like you cut it high enough to leave a little airflow underneath the windrow.


You guys rake much hay?

We don't as it's normally hot and dry over here......

No, we rarely have to as hard as the wind usually blows and July rain is very rare. The storms this time of year almost always split and go north of the Buttes and south toward Chester.

Sam, how much moisture does your corn get?

Kroo, we normally flood irrigate our corn twice a year.

Which would be about 10"(total) for two times.

Alfalfa once or twice.

What is planted here looks good. Some of the land close to the rivers isn't planted. We have had 3/4s of our average annual rainfall for the year already. Still some people trying to get late beans in the ground.

Expecting ten barrels of tilapia per acre. Best ever.

A bunch of cops around here are asswholes.