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Some of the farmers up there in WA are finding out about that N thing Jim. More and more every year, for the 8-9 years I was up there, were leaving the stubble in the field. Fewer were burning it off or baling it. Seems they just leave it there and plant through it or I think some roll it down if winter didn't flatten it.

Makes it rougher on guys like me that need straw for other uses. Costs go up every year is seems. I actually have let some of the grasses around the place grow long, then I cut it for "straw" for the chickens. They really like it if it's got some seed heads on it.

The aftermath of the deadly Montana storm.... I feel lucky to have survived....

Geeze....show some compassion why dont ya!

Sorry big Jim..... ;(

Is the crop situation in the East as bad as it seems?

Hell... I was just teasing you a bit! I shoulda used a smile icon.



Yeah, its a bit of a schit show here....but Young Daniel is having a blast this morning in the snow!

See? Making lemonade!

Just thought I would mention that is has been snowing here most of the day. The ground gets white and then it melts.

Thanks for the update!

Feel free to check in fellers.

Young farmer across the road from me planted and harvested two crops of wheat hay this year. Had every bit of it sold before he even planted the second one.

Green barley hay is like cow candy. They'll eat it until they bloat if you don't restrict their access.

Well the kids live between Choteau and Conrad and spent the weekend trapped in their house. Snow blew the driveway closed. Got a pickup out to go check cows and horses. I have been told you guys have a far amount of grain still in the field. In Idaho south of Coeur d' Alene there is still a lot of standing grain and a massive amount of Garbanzos still on the ground that may not get cut if our weather still keeps up.

And the straw thing is getting to be a big thing in our neck of the woods. There are two schools of bailing going on right now. One school does what is called Com-Bailing which is attaching the square baler to the back of the combine and everything that comes out of the back of the combine goes directly into the baler. It is used for feed in the feed lots. The second school is swathing the stubble and bailing it for use at a straw plant that when up and running will take straw and turn it into a fiber paste that can be used to make fiber board or a plywood substitute, and can also be used for making paper plates and other such stuff.

Saw some kitchen bowls recently made from straw fiber.

I bet Jim could weave a mean basket.....

and sew a button to it....

For a button basket...

I bled all over that stupid shirt.

Damn eye side is dang near as sharp as the poking side.


Wife's thimble didn't fit too well.....

I saw a blurb on the news a couple of years ago praising the practice......new jobs.....no more burning fields and the air pollution that goes with it.....less logging of immature trees to produce OSB...etc but after reading Jim's post about having to replace the nitrogen in the soil when the stubble with it's natural nitrogen is removed makes it sound less than the miraculous break through that the media portrayed it to be.

Get super extra thick bologna FOR THE LOVE OF GOD,MAN

Thanks for the link but my communist vegetarian friend in Denmark is gonna make me a thimble out of boxwood.