The boys started planting FULL BORE until the rain!!

JD Seller

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The boys started planting this last week. We did not plant any of our own corn as we think it is too cold. Several of their customers want to start so they planted hard Wed and Thurs. So far all the equipment seems to be running well. They are going to have to change how they are handling seed as it is taking too long to tend to the two planters. It is taking one person ,plus , just to keep the planters supplied. Can't really tell how they many acres a day they will be able to plant as the farms they have planted have been made up with multiple smaller fields.

I do not want to start planting my corn until the soil is warmer. It is too cold and wet for me.

I have been keeping too busy to post much here. Trying limit the indoor time so I get some projects done.
 
My dad was opposed to planting in cold soil. Spent many a Memorial Day running a disk ahead of the corn planter while listening to the Indy 500. Usually the best crops I ever helped grow were planted around may 10 in Indiana that seems to be the magic time. We had a cold summer in 2009 that affected the pollination and dry down. Yields were off about 20 percent. It was almost a disaster but grain prices were up that fall. That's the year cousin and I hung it up.
 
We had 26 Saturday morning--soil's not gonna warm much with nights like that. Still there's a few planting here. BTO's gotta plant no matter what the temp is.
 
No recollection how many years ago it was but MANY, we finished planting corn on July 4th. Turned out this was the best corn we had in the previous five years. We were always able to get on our land at least 10 to 14 days before any of the surrounding farmers could get on theirs. Of course this was back when we plowed every year.
 

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