What a difference a day makes!!

JD Seller

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The waterways and hay ground really dried out Sunday. We where able to get most of it done yesterday and I just finished them this morning.

So I now have another 103 acres of oat/hay to cut this year if we keep getting the moisture.

I had the waterway cut out wide so I can kept the grass baled out of them after it gets established. I have found that this helps the water ways keep cleaner. They do not clog up as fast.

The boys are wanting to get the planters rolling ASAP. I keep telling them that they need to wait 6-7 days after the anhydrous to plant. They are getting jumpy as there are a few guys already planting.

It is going to be warm today, maybe 80 here. Then it is supposed to cool dawn and rain. So it still is not really time to be going at it hard.

I go by the conditions. The trees are barely budded this year. The hay is just starting to grow. Things are just starting slow with this cool spring.
 
Someone showed a chart on anither forum, possible 10 inches of snow just east of me end of the week, could be inch or 2 by me.

Little hard to believe that much accumulation, after the 80s we just had.

But either way, heck of a forcast.

Got some oats and alfalfa in, keeping the corn seed in the bag. :)

Paul
 
We had 65-70 all week, and then it frosted one night, snowed the next day, and finally today looks like it is going to be nice!
 
Ya,a day sure did make a difference. It'd been warm for 3 days,starting to dry up a little bit. I hauled some manure on some corn stubble yesterday. THEN,another storm this morning dumped three quarters of an inch and there's water standing all over again.
 
Finished working up my oat ground yesterday. Was going to pick rocks today. Somehow picking rocks in a thunderstorm didn"t seem like a good plan. Hopefully it dries out enough to get back on the field tomorrow.
 
Still lots of water around here. We went to Cadillac this weekend, rained from Coldwater to Ionia. Came home today, rained from Cadillac to Ionia and we got another 1/2" at home Branch County. Saw one field of oats planted around Mesick, and lots of wet, flooded ground. I am getting used to the ducks swimming in my bean field, but when I see them building nests, I get concerned.
 

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