Got some oats in

rrlund · Apr 27, 2018

I got about two thirds of my oats planted today. There was still snow on the north side of the buildings Monday,but I plowed Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Got the fertilizer spread yesterday. I was gonna go to an auction this morning,but I checked the new forecast just before I was ready to leave and they changed it to a 50% chance of rain and snow tonight,so I figured I'd better stay home and do what I could. If the south end of that field had gotten wet again,who knows when I'd get back in there. Oh well,nothing on the sale I couldn't live without anyway.

grandpa Love · Apr 27, 2018

Don't you hate being grown up and doing the right thing?! Lol.

tomturkey · Apr 27, 2018

Funny, that's the question I ask myself when looking over auction bills. Anything there I can't live without. Most times anymore I stay home. Don't need anymore projects, not getting the ones I have done. gobble

flying belgian · Apr 27, 2018

I walked out in field where I am putting wheat. It is good except for about 2 acres by building. Was tempted but decided to go to Granddaughter hockey tournament instead. Needs a couple more days. I did have the fertilizer brought out and dumped in my spreader so I can go on a moment's notice.

RayP(MI) · Apr 27, 2018

Good for you! I'm gearing up for shearing Monday thru Wednesday, then it's oats full bore. Figure to cultivate up the previously tilled field to smooth it out, and then comes the dreaded ROCK PICKING! And my field this year looks like a bumper crop of them. Then gotta dig the drill out of the back of the polebarn. Going to be a week or more out before I get mine sown. maybe two.

4520BW · Apr 27, 2018

Do you sell your oats or keep them for feed? I don't think any place around here will buy them. My neighbor grows about 10 acres mainly for the straw. I combine them for him because he has a rotor machine and does not want his straw ground up. I put about 50-75 bushel on my wagon for combining them. I use them in my horse and poultry feed.

jm. · Apr 27, 2018

So R when will oats that you planted today be ready to combine? We sow wheat in the late fall then combine it about mid June or so.

marloweg · Apr 27, 2018

monday a guy was planting corn in Necedah WI with snow in the ditches and woods

paul · Apr 27, 2018

Wonder if the fields will thaw out and dry off by Monday for oats work here?

Of course, three out of 5 days of rain is forecast starting Sunday night.....

Sigh.

I was gonna do a little wheat, but as late as its getting, I shifted back to oats. The coop used to buy oats, but quit 2 harvests ago - they will buy a load at a time when there is room in the small feedmill bin, and not offer much for it.

I feed mine, and have found some neighbors to buy some extra. Last year a dairy fella down the road a ways got hailed, and he bought 500bumof oats from me.

But, first, I need to get it planted!

Paul

Bruce from Can. · Apr 28, 2018

Good for you Randy! Nothing happening here in my part of South Central Ontario, we have been hit with several days of rain since the ice storm back on the 16 th. Ground is now saturated to the point some fields that have no tiles have standing water. Looks better for next week

rrlund · Apr 28, 2018

Right around 127 Yard Sale time. lol

rrlund · Apr 28, 2018

I feed them and bale the straw. I mix oats with corn in the creep feeders for the calves,then feed the rest to the cattle in the feedlots.

Donald Lehman · Apr 28, 2018

I was putzing around in the woods today and it sounded like our neighbor was working ground. Supposed to be two days of crap here, and then honest-to-goodness spring next week. I expect everyone will be at it then.

Nick m · Apr 28, 2018

They're starting to hit it hard here in the south ionia area. Waited in line for 45min to get fertilizer today. Have 20acres of sand I'm going to plant corn in tomorrow. The rest of the ground seems a bit sticky to me, but the big guys are going like crazy.

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