Just Too Wet!

Allan in NE · May 6, 2014

Tried it, but still no go. Think if I had one more drying day, we'd be in the field........

However, 'sposed to rain for the next week starting tomorrow. :>(

Allan

Paul from MI · May 6, 2014

Know what you mean. Gonna try spreading fertilizer tomorrow if it doesn't rain tonight.

Mike (WA) · May 6, 2014

Given your part of the country, I'm thinkin' better too wet than too dry. . .

David G · May 6, 2014

East Central Iowa:

All our corn is in.

Looks like about 25-30% overall.

farmerwithmutt · May 6, 2014

Field cultivators are nicer when wet

IaGary · May 6, 2014

Been going hard here since Sunday noon.

Started planting yesterday letting it dry about 12 hours after the field cultivator.

250 acres of corn in and 300 to go. I didn"t feel like starting another field at 8:00 tonite.

It is just getting to where the planter can follow right behind the field cultivator here, still cold though.

Gary

David G · May 6, 2014

Gary,

I hear you.

it is just dry enough and barely warm enough. It is supposed to be in the 80s for a couple of days, then back in the 50-60s.

Cumminsdeere · May 6, 2014

I wish I had your problems I drilled on March 27 and It was dry as he$! Then . if we don't get some rain we won't get a dry land crop again

fixerupper · May 6, 2014

Here in my part of NWIA the field work conditions are darned near perfect. My rain gauge shows 2.8" since last Wednesday but we've been so dry the soil just slurped it right up. Three weeks ago a 32" tile was replaced in the end of my creek. It went under a road so they had to dig up the road and I estimate the trench was 12' deep from the top of the road surface to the bottom of the trench. There was not even a hint of water in the trench, just a little trickling out of the tile. Normally this time of year they would have had water n the trench. Just shows how dry our subsoil is. Jim

David G · May 6, 2014

You are a lot drier than here, amazing what a couple hundred miles does.

Wemedeeres · May 6, 2014

Not good here, if it quit raining today it'd be ten days before anything would go, sadly rain is in the forecast on and off for the next week.

showcrop · May 6, 2014

I spread commercial fertilizer about a week ago, which is acouple weeks late than usual and I cut ruts in a place where I never have had to be concerned before, but I got it done.

Bud Sather in MT · May 6, 2014

Wet here in Fairfield, MT. It has been 4 days since we turned a wheel. This afternoon I saw a few snowflakes in the air. Might chilly here.
waiting not so patiently for warm weather and some grass. Feeding the cows is getting rather old and I don"t need any more practice this year.
Bud

paul · May 6, 2014

I got a field of corn planted today.

I don't have to mention its just the little 3 acre one do i?

Waiting on fertilizer, they varriable apply it. Epwalk 30mph winds today and a few fields are a bit dannp, so waiting. Supposed to rain Thursday, if not tomorrow.

Paul

Don-Wi · May 6, 2014

There hasn't been so much as a tire turned in the fields around here. If the rain stays away for a few more days, we'll be in the fields this weekend hauling manure.

As it is though, there is rain in the forecast for the next couple days so even the fields that could be worked, aren't because nobody likes burning more fuel than needed.

Also, I gotta finish making the new beater for our manure spreader. Here's a picture of what it looks like right now....

I've got the paddle mounts all welded up and drilled out, just gotta weld them to the new tube now. A couple hours and I think it'll be back in action again.

Donovan from Wisconsin

fixerupper · May 6, 2014

Seems like the trees are late leafing out around here. The early ones like the maples have tiny little,leaves coming out. Usually they are fully leafed out by now. Today I talked to a farmer who said he stuck his arm down a tile intake two weeks ago and found ice. I suppose it makes sense, if the tree roots are frozen the leaves aren't going to come out. Jim

kruser · May 6, 2014

Meant to mention earlier - But saw a few fields of corn up last Sunday around Lincoln. Illinois.
Went to Galesburg, IL yesterday and didn't see any up but a lot planted and a lot of field work being done.
Jim

Dave H (MI) · May 6, 2014

They planted soy next door today while I was working on replacing the tail wheel on the IH 720 plow...a job I do not recommend unless you have a very large loader tractor. They stopped to talk to me and told me the ground was still too wet to do most of the other fields in the area. I put the plow in the ground and it did a great job until I moved down the hill a bit and then I started picking up moisture. So I stopped and now we wait.

MSD · May 6, 2014

Up to 6 inches of snow forecast for the Black Hills so it might get worse.

hrRoss · May 7, 2014

not much field work here ec wis, getting close but rain next few days. doing some custom tiling while waiting, went thru some mud today, needed second tractor pulling. tile lines at my place have been running for 6 weeks. my water line to the heifer shed thawed out last night, valve on waterer was stuck open, mustof ran all night. froze since mid feb.

Fergienewbee · May 7, 2014

Plowed a plot yesterday; rained hard last night. Still waiting for a good day to spray RU. Oats are up about an inch. Looks like the old drill did a pretty good job.

Larry

Kent Petersen · May 7, 2014

Corn pretty much all in here in lake county SD guys are going on beans but we need rain

Dave from MN · May 7, 2014

Is that disk a 475? How wide? need a good pic of the tractor pulling it, love them 88 series

Allan in NE · May 7, 2014

It's a 27' 480. I sink 'er clear to the spools 'cause I've a lot of cover to turn under. Really works best at 6mph.

Allan

Jimmie D. Phelps · May 7, 2014

Wet?? Whats rain? We are so dry here the wheat is beginning to curl. All we get are wind and tumbleweeds. Send your surplus rain this way. Where? Southern Nebraska panhandle.

GordoSD · May 7, 2014

Stuck the thermometer in my field yesterday at 10:00 am and it was 47 Degrees.

formenwhogrow · May 7, 2014

Don't get those paddles out of balance! Probably
easier to get them right with a square tube rather
than round. What kind of spreader is that? I don't
think I've ever seen one with square tube beaters.
Nice shop set-up by the way.

Don-Wi · May 7, 2014

It's for an H&S 220. The original is round tube, but this was aquired for $20 so I'll make it work. The shop is where I work, and they let me work on side jobs when I'm off the clock.

To make the paddle mounts I welded 1 1/2" angle to some 1/4" x 5" and then milled one edge square and drilled the bolt pattern for the paddles. I gotta straighten them some because they warped from welding on one side only. We've got a nice hydraulic press that'll make that job easy.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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