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Makeing Dust Fly and Planting Oats and Alfalfa.

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Adirondack case guy

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Well, when winter left, within a blink of an eye spring planting season was here. The uncles had a lot of fall plowing done and the ground on the lower farm dried out quickly, Got some ground ready Wed. for seeding and started planting. Thursday was another productive day. Yesterday it was foggy and light rain. Today broke with sunshine, windy and temps in mid 60s, so planting resumed on the lower farm. Should total about 75A tonight.
I spent some time this afternoon here with my 1470 and Amco F15 disc getting some ground ready to plant. Bit smaller scale though.
The last pic. of the temp is on the front of my shop.
Loren, the Acg.
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wow ! winter was just there and your in the field already , much different from southern Va.
 
I made the big mistake of not starting about Wednesday. I made the mistake of listening to the forecast. Pretty sure I could have had them in today.
 
Yea Randy,
The conditions changed really quick, with some real nice weather, except for yesterday with fog and light rain, but a lot of the family farm is on limestone ledges and dries out quickly in the spring. We are very dependent on timely rains during the growing season for good crops. Alfalfa does well here because it is a deep routing crop and can penetrate into the seems of the rock to suck moisture from the pourous rock layers.
We also have bad years when even the maple trees have a hard time finding moisture. We had lots of snow last winter, and limestone bedrock wicks moisture, and there are lots of little underground cavities which store water, but things can change quickly with this type of ground.
Loren
 
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