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keh · Jul 9, 2012

Went through an area of dairy farms in Newberry County, SC, today. They were cutting corn for silage. Some of it appeared from the road to be 7-8 feet tall with full developed ears starting to turn down. Bottom of stalk turning yellow. This is in an area with not or very little irrigation water availiabe, so the corn got timely rains.

Some small grain appeared to have been cut for silage and Sorghum for silage planted no till. It needed rain.

No soybeans looked over 12 inches high. Some beans had been planted after small grain, no tilled. Some herbicide failures, but most beans looked healthy, just in need of rain.

I was moving hay with a tractor and got chased in by a hard shower of rain, but not much rain fell, except on me.

KEH

Mike (WA) · Jul 9, 2012

Thats the nice thing about "roading" stuff home with your tractor- gives an opportunity to really look at the stuff you're passing.

Just about everybody's hay went down on the 4th here (southwest Washington), because its the first break we've had in the weather. Wives everywhere were making excuses for their husband's absence from the festivities, and husbands were looking skyward and giving thanks.

Because of all the rain earlier, hay is real heavy, so now everyone is tedding it to death to try to get it dry. Upside is that there is no rain in sight.

And no, don't worry, we're not knocking all the leaves off the alfalfa- its all grass hay around here. My Timothy was just in the bloom stage, so its a dust cloud of pollen when its tedded, but should make real nice hay.

jackinok · Jul 9, 2012

neighbor here cut his corn sunday for silage,was maybe 4-5 foot tall max,and starting to dry up.i never even seen a filled out ear.looking like rain outside now ,but looks like its going to miss us again.

jon f mn · Jul 10, 2012

I lived in Newberry for almost a year in 84. Worked on a dairy farm.

keh · Jul 10, 2012

They had more dairys then. The ones there now have followed the"get bigger or get out" rule. The man that had the big dairy near the overpass on the Clinton-Newberry highway passed on and some of the other big dairymen bought the property and facilities.

KEH

jon f mn · Jul 12, 2012

Thats where I worked, For the Parr's. Lol, it's a small world. I saw someone started it back up recently, I thought maybe one of the family did it.

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