Started spring work

This morning I spread fertilizer on 12 acres of triticale. Have 30 acres in the buggy for tomorrow on rye. Might get the disc hooked up and hope to finish manure hauling by the weekend. Windy and chilly but feels good to be out. Saw one farmer chisel plowing and another putting down anhydrous. Heard of some oats planted.This is southwest WI. Tom

It's been a weird spring here. Had freezing weather a couple weeks back with the ground free of snow. I walked the fields shortly there after and noticed the frost had broken the ground loose into fine material. I take the tractor and field cultivator out to try it. I work nearly five inches deep and the soil is breaking apart very well. I can't go over every acre yet as the ground is wet in areas but I have over 100 acres worked up. Unless we get a pounding rain I should save a trip over that 100 acres. I need to put fertilizer on the wheat but the ground is wet in spots so I would rut the field up in a number of spots. At the same time there is enough grade on the wheat fields so the water does not stand so the wheat is looking fairly good. Spent the last couple of days doing repairs as the alternator gave up on the 8430. When it gets warm enough to be on the ground I need to change the shovels on the 980 field cultivator. Probably next week after Easter. I need to start moving soybeans to market. I got it in my head to talk to the neighbor about his JD 60 which has been sitting in the weeds for a few years now. I guess that I am enticed as I never knew this tractor existed until a few years ago when it was pulled out of a barn after sitting most likely 50 years. 50 years and not more than a quarter mile away. He's got a JD VB drill that was in pretty good condition with steel wheels that came out the same time but I think the weather has been pretty hard on it. I can't see it from the road currently. I've got to go through the 6620 combine sometime in the next couple of months as it needs a couple of things done. Praying that I don't have any serious breakdowns when the weather gets here to work again.

I put wheat fertilizer down before the rain last week... and if I guy were to plant oats, it'd go tomorrow. Neighbor had the drill out...

No activity around here , just some fertilizer spreading and frost seeding Red Clover into fall Wheat. I dont really have much dirt to play in this spring. Most of my farm is in hay. 40 acres of fall wheat, just a little corn silage ground. No big rush. Been getting rain this past week, so ground is wet, and turning green

I'm close to Rock Island, Ill. Neighbor across the road was chiseling corn stalks and had another tractor in the fall chiseled ground running. Another neighbor got his field cultivators out of the shed today to get them ready to go. 35 at noon and 20 mph winds today. I stayed in the shed this afternoon working on the 88.

I disced oat ground this morning, spread fertilizer after dinner and started working it in when I got home from taking the spreader back. Hope to have the oats in by Saturday.

Late afternoon Monday the organic boys that own the ground across the road showed up. I thought they had a big disc the last couple years but this thing looks big. He worked up on the hill top that night and when I went by yesterday morning they had a tandem hitch on two drills going along with field cultivator or what ever it is.
think they have two of those tracked Deere's, a 4840 and a slug of other Deere tractors, think every thing is Deere.

I like watching these guys, It's good entertainment, they don't screw around.

Snowing here, up to 3 inches tomorrow....

Ben

I got neighbor's seeded spring wheat on the 24th of March, so they can check out their combine before beans! But Tom if i drive east of La Crosse Wisc, can i see your farm from I -90 ? Anyway that where i figure you live !!

We have been farming for a month-and-a-half. I'll am land planeing today. Ready to make beds for planting. Wont plant for at least 2 weeks. Man is it dry. Did I say it was dry?

I am hour directly west of Madison. Tom

I spent this afternoon spraying one of my hayfields(I'm in Southwest Washington).Grass is really growing.Was down south a few miles in the Willamette valley(Oregon) last Saturday bull$hitting with a farmer friend and lotta spring work going there as well.



Snapped this picture today of some of the neighbors equipment while spraying.Their working a chunk of ground right there.
Paul

I have to put in some organic oats for neighbor. I drove around and looked at it today. It would go but for one spot where water seeps out of hillside. Since it's still early I'm going to wait until Friday. Nicollet Co. Mn.

ok,

Actually a little bit of moisture here but still way early for 90 percent of the ground to be bare I was out scouting for triticale sprouts

Good to hear you are able to get started still in a drought here so i have been in the fields now for over two weeks,, should finish up the small grain planting today,, planting forage barley now,, been over 500 acres of hay ground, and planted the last 200 acres of small grains,, I started growing forage beardless winter wheat in 2019,, I have over 250 acres of it in and its really coming on the last week or so,, temps for us they say will not hit the freezing mark for at least 10 days now possibly for the summer,, but its Wyoming so we could still get a nice wet blizzard between now and the end of May.