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Allan in NE

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• Aug 11, 2012

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If it doesn't rain before plantin' time, this gumbo SOB just might end up back in broam, intermediate wheat or buffalo grass. :>)

Allan

 

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Nebraska Cowman

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Hey, at least the summer fallow looks good!

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Zero moisture when I plowed it; Zero when I pushed 'er back down again. :>)

Allan

 

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Dave Sherburne NY

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Thought for a while you had lost your camera

 

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morgan in ar

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• Aug 11, 2012

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do you even own a chainsaw?

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Naw,

No need fer an oversized paper weight 'round here. :>)

Allan

 

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IaGary

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Can't believe how tight that soil looks. One thing about it if you ever get moisture that soil ought to hold it.

What's intermediate wheat?

Gary

 

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JRSutton

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• Aug 11, 2012

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If the price of dirt comes up, you'll be in the right place at the right time.

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Intermediate Wheat Grass. We use it for a "hay" out here in the dry.

Yeah, gumbo is no fun. Three drops of rain and you're in 4-wheel drive. Let it dry for 15 minutes and ya can't drive a chisel in it. :>(

Allan

 

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EX 450 Owner

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• Aug 11, 2012

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How does buffalo grass work for you out there?
Here in eastern Ne. with our clay soil I never had much luck getting it started.

About 35 years ago I want to try it on a couple of acres, and no one in the area sold it so I ordered it from Wilsons Seed Farms.

After about 2 years it was such a poor stand I disk it up, and darn if the next spring it came back in better than before.

Stock Seed Farm near me has several varieties now that they claim works good in our area but I haven’t tried them.

 

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GordoSD

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Get the history books out and read what happened in the thirties when they did that. Half of Nebraska is now in Texas.The top half.

 

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teddy52food

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• Aug 11, 2012

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How did they ever hang a horse thief in that country???????

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Was talkin' tonuge in cheek. Buffalo grass is a pain. :>)

If I gotta put 'er back in hay, I'll go with a mix of broam, intermediate wheatgrass and a dash of alfalfa.

Allan

 

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DeltaRed

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Our 'dobe soil here is the same way...You have to plow it early in the spring and let it freeze out.Otherwise you end up with baseball size clods

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 11, 2012

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No people, no horse theives. :>)

Allan

 

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Allan in NE

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Good place fer it. :>)

Allan

 

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thurlow

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Check out what old Bobby Burns had to say about plans.........

 

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Straw Boss

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• Aug 11, 2012

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My neighbor said about planting corn in his gumbo...ideal planting conditions are on the 5th Tuesday of the month in a 15 minute window sometime between cloudy and sunshine usually while you were at home eating dinner. (Thats lunch to you city folk.)
Any earlier you just make a slot in the mud, any later you can't get the planter in the ground.

 

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Todd-L

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Well Allen you know what the old timers around our neck of the woods say about this gumbo. If you stick with this gumbo it will stick with you.

 

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Huskers86

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• Aug 11, 2012

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If nothing else she looks pretty!

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Aug 11, 2012

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9 years out of 10, that black ground will raise better wheat than the no-till will. It is just that 1 year when it blows away that is the problem. We have went to a reduced tillage, but we are so dry here, western SD, that we are trying no-till this year on the winter wheat. Only because we were afraid if we did "work" it, and we didn't get enough moisture to bring it up, it would blow. Now I don't know if we will be able to get the drill in the ground.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Aug 11, 2012

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The old saying goes "plant in the dust and the bins will bust".

 

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Ichabod

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• Aug 11, 2012

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Looks like the pictures from the new Mars rover.