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The corn is all planted...update
William81
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Just a little update.....answered prayers. We have received about an inch of rain in the last two days !!! We are still in draught conditions, but this will help. It should be enough to perk up the hay crop too !!!!!
I am thankful !!!!
Now we are praying for some decent rain in the near future !!
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It should be “popping” up soon
Corn here is between 6 and 12 inches tall. Cool nights have slowed down the growth ( eastern NC). Folks are in full swing planting soybeans . Winter wheat and rye will be picked in about 3 or 4 weeks or so .
Dang, you've been busy.
Farming in the Texas Panhandle in the '60's. We thought we really moved up in the world when we got a six row planter (20 foot swath, up from 13).
And then we chopped the corn for silage with a two-row cutter and 20' truck beds.
Yeah, the "Good Ol' Days"! 🙄
Congrats
One worry out if the way only a few hundred more now
We are surrounded by crop fields not mine , no farmer here
I have a a old 9n Ford we mow and push snow with
When there working the fields (and ourneighbors equepment ) next to us using tractors and equipment the size of a house and having GPS and computer controlled
I think when that 9n was new it was on top of the game and it's its whopping 20 hp or so now it looks like a toy
Just another amazing thing how far farming have come
how long would an electric tractor be able to pull that planter before battry run down
As I was sitting here reading this, I heard a tractor. I got up and looked out front and the farmer that owns that field is discing it. He'll probably start planting today or tomorrow.
Joe
He was planting corn today, only took him about 2 hours.
Just pull a diesel generator behind the planter 😂
Last year the guys cutting hay on the field behind me ran over a fawn.
Turkey Vultures had it picked clean by noon the next day.
I just planted 5 rows of Ambrosia sweet corn. No machinery involved The sweetest I've ever eaten. I can eat ten ears at one sitting.
I have long judged farmers to be the bravest men going. Their entire livelihood depends on factors that are totally out of their control. Yet they persevere.
Farmers are the only businessmen who pay retail for everything they purchase for work and sell the product at wholesale and try to make a profit . Some years they do and some they don't. Glad I no longer do so .
Bless our farmers. There's too few left.
No corn here for 2023. We have all of our soybeans planted and most are up. Waiting on another landowner to harvest hay off his field(s) so we can plant another 100 acres. That's less than 5 hours actual running time but moving equipment and prep time makes it an all day process.
I just don't see how the local farmers can do corn with such short growing seasons.
Not a ton of corn fields but they're out there. Seen many not make it due to late start, many others season ended too early. What a loss.
A decent couple of gentle rains have made the farmers in our neck of the woods feel a might better.... Answered Prayers for sure...
Same here. We got some much needed rains. Good, steady soaking showers
It's that time of the year for hit and miss thunderstorms/rain here in North Texas and we've had some everyday for about a week, even lost power for about an hour last evening... we needed the rain but could use a few completely dry days to complete the first hay cutting around here.
Nice update. Good to hear.
My BIL, is a farmer, like his father. He plants over 1,000 acres of corn or soybean, every year. Hardest workers you will ever meet. When the season is over, they work just as hard on their equipment and planning the next crop. Oh, and the price of those combines and tractors......😮😮😮. I will never know how they turn a profit. I couldn't do what they do. Two benefits we get our, as much Jersey sweet corn as we want, and a few good places to hunt!!!
How many bushels/acre do they average around there ??
Corn 140...
Beans 43...
Any irrigation or dry land ,,,,??
No irrigation on our property....
I changed the Avg BU of Corn/beans. The new numbers are what the State reported as an average in our County...
High desert here but two rivers provide ample flood irrigation. Average corn is 230bu/acre. No one tries any dry land production.
Farmers don't make much on 'average' yields. We strive for considerably higher.
So do we........ Most times it works out ! I have been thankful for crop insurance once or twice too...