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I really hope that this harvest season can somehow recover. There are a lot of crops in the field that should have been out a long time ago.

Many of the fields around me were planted 3 to 4 weeks later then normal. If they even got planted. With the water and cooler temps it looks to be a very poor harvest in this locality. Heck, the soybeans are still mostly green. They should be mostly out by now. My food plot with sorghum in it just had the seed heads popping a week or so ago. Only good thing is the geese are still using hayfields so I've had passed shooting opportunities as they fly to the neighbors.

Where is your locale, woodmaster?

Educate me because I'm not a farmer nor pretend to know. Economics aside, will a poor performing field, or region do better next year because it was left fallow?

Depends...

Flooding can leech your soil or wash it into the ocean...

Flooding was never a normal part of crop rotation for most U.S, farmers.
And crop rotation pretty much went away by the late 1960s.

We rotate crops, and most do around here.

A combine can go places a tractor can not pull a wagon through.

The biggest worry is snow before the crops are in. Combines, and snow do not work together.

I hope the weather is more kind to all of you in the upcoming months.

here in Minnesota we need desert dry conditions for 3 full weeks and the crops won`t be that great anyway. its raining as a post this yet ,i hope our government forgets the other countries over sea`s and helps our American tax paying farmers better and other people who pay taxes in America too .

Rooster, laughing!

We drove down to the river bottom yesterday in the SxS and checked on the corn and alfalfa. Corn looks good(mild frost here and there but it'll make great silage), alf is short, REALLY short around the edges. Deer have been chewing on it pretty hard and it just hasn't been warm enough to grow much.

Muddy....................................................................................

(but not as bad as some guys)





Dess, most guys rotate a pulse crop(peas, lentils, etc..) when growing wheat. We don't and usually have summer fallow ground.


The guys that are 'in the process' of cutting our crop have newer JD combines and they track yield data. It will show a map of the field that illustrates how each acre performed. A wheat field around here is typically 160-640 acres so it is neat to see the variations in regards to low spots, hill tops , etc.

Re-crop made 30-50 bushel.

Summer fallow ground made 60-80 bushel.

There was a straight line down the center exactly where they met and the map showed it perfectly.



The worst part of the uber crop is that it pulled a lot of nutrients out of the ground and now it's going to waste.

Still a bunch of spring wheat to be harvested here.


Poor quality, reduced price, cow feed grain.

Now if we get a stretch of good weather after the ducks get pushed down it could be fun.

Standing wheat here in N.D. Is crap. No quality and should have been off a month ago. Some wheat and canola are sprouting in the head. Crap wheat is about 2 bucks a bushel. Cow feed at best but at mid 40 temps it ain’t gonna dry anyway. Not worth putting more cost into to dry it. Again I will say I’m super happy I quit 3 years ago. Ed k

Versus about $5 if it was good.



You go from making money to losing money real quick.

But that's why we run old wore out junk!

I feel for you farmers-ranchers. That’s a difficult life.

I have heard about a guy getting 1.50$ a bushel for wheat this year.

I said before that here around Fairview they said we got 15.75 inches in September.

We haven’t got but about half of that but it’s been passing for a month now. Never gets dry before it rains again. I’m guessing before it’s over some of the wheat will be deer feed. Most people don’t know that our average rain and snow total moisture is about 14 inches a year here normally. Ed k

Sell it to me standing.


I will roll it up.

Bought this today....hoping to be able to make some money in the oil patch this winter...