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Dave H (MI)

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Everything is planted..all the corn and soybeans are done as of 1 PM today. Around 3 PM we heard some rumbles. I was cutting the grass when a few big cold raindrops started coming. I think I muttered something like "lies, all lies" and just kept mowing until the sky opened up and I had to floor it for the garage. Rained hard off and on for about an hour. Couldn't have come at a better time.

Need to do some fine tuning on the vegetable garden but, mostly, I will be relaxing tomorrow. :)
 
That's why I was thinking it was gonna stop. Sure fooled me...I got soaked. Planted all week in dust. Moisture down in there but the top couple inches is sunbaked dust and it just coated everything. I had a hydraulic hose cut loose two times this year and that made things even worse. I was glad for the rain. Would have liked another couple hours of it.
 
Nothing here yet. Dad and I finished our crops last Wednesday. We have been trying to help my brother (who wants to be on his own) get his last 60 AC in, but he's been procrastinating all along. Dad and I have been there at 8 the last couple days (not our crops, no need to get there early) and he doesn't show up until 11 both days! Dad has told him year after year you can't be a farmer on a "whenever you feel like it" schedule. His fields required a lot of work to fluff up and dry out. Supposedly this is his last year, then we'll farm that 60 next year. Had a threat of rain every day here for almost the last week, but only got .2 the one day. Made it a little too sticky to plant, but just right to fit fields. That was Wednesday, looked bad a few times, but no rain yet. Beans are up out of the ground, and the sandhill cranes are already in the fields, unfortunately.

Ross
 
You fellas are telling me that I get done planting and get an hour of rain that didn't happen anywhere north or south of me? I must be living right!
 
Not a drop here in Branch County. Got 12 drops on the fenders of my tractor when I was planting beans Friday, nothing since. Nothing predicted either.
 
That's a good feeling. It's ironic that after we plant into wet soil we need another rain, or at least that is the way our soil is. It seems like after a long hard planting season when we get done we can't relax right away.
 
Good for you, I got 10 acres of corn to go tomorrow and then it is straight into the hay. How did the planter work? You got the 800 up for sale yet? John
 
Glad to hear you got finished. We got 1.2 inches Friday night that was slow and gentle. The we got about an 1 inch yesterday in about 15 minutes. That one washed the lane bad. So the crops are looking good here. I will try and get some pictures tomorrow.
 
I am thinking seriously about it. I want to fix the main clutch because I don't like dumping broken equipment on the unsuspecting. The hydraulic pump I will just tell them is not working. I toyed with the idea of keeping it around to plant beans but, honestly, the 7000 did a great job and I am moving away from the concept that I need two of everything. Here's a shot from today.
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Like to see that. I'll get some pics up when the plants are visible. Even the stuff planted three weeks ago by the big guys is barely visible today. We had light snow on the ground one morning about 2 weeks back. This past week I had at least two days it was upper 80's.
 
I'm not having that problem! I'm ready for a day where I can switch from the "have to" list to the "want to" list.
 
I probably should not say this but, once I put a lot of dollar bills in the ground it can be dangerous to be seen grazing a field in daylight. I set the kids on the lanes and in the woodlot with the 4-wheeler making a lot of noise and encouraging the wildlife to give me a break.

By the by..."short season corn". Are you the guy who commented on it? Maybe I am saying it wrong but at the elevator that is what they call the 90-100 day corn. That 110 day stuff they call "long season". Last year I planted 100+ day corn and it weren't full dry until November. We had that freak blizzard and the mud that followed kept me busy into January. Not sure if the shorter maturity will help but I am getting it in a tiny bit late due to snow and other stuff so that is what everyone was recommending. Hard to find too. Lot of people using it this year.
 
Late or full season corn will usually give a higher yield, enough to more than offset any drying costs associated with it. Here we can grow 3000 heat unit or 100 day corn, and almost all corn grown here has to be run through the dryer. I would much rather pay 20 or 30 cents per bushel more to dry it than risk leaving corn out in the field into December or later.You only need to lose 10 bushels per acre to make 30 dollars per acre drying look cheap, not to mention the hassle involved in a winter harvest. Ben
 
Dave H (MI),

It's always a great feeling!! The only feeling that's better... is when you get that crop OUT of the field. :)

Glad that we rent our land out now. My husband ends up working so much OT at work that there's no way he could farm on top of it. It's a little tougher now that he's in his mid-50's than when he was in his 20's and 30's.
 
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