2nd Year Runnin' :(

5 days ago, I thought we were in for a bumper crop this year.

Frosted night before last and the wind has been blowing non-stop for four days. Turned off dry and we've just flat run out of ground moisture.

Yesterday I noticed the alfalfa turning in on itself and that wheat crop, even tho it is knee high and in the boot, looks as though it is headed for the hay baler.

So, tomorrow morning I guess I start salvaging what I can. Bummer! :>(

Allan

We've had as good a wheat year as I can remember here so far. It was getting hot the past week, but we've had another inch or so just in the last few days.

Dad remembers as good of weather years (he's 78), but not when the weather panned out AND the price was up!

Curiously, out of all the gorgeous wheat around here - he was one circle that looks like 125 acres of spiky punk rock hairdo! The Russian wheat aphids have just pounded it into oblivion, but didn't affect the circle adjacent to it...

Howard

How long can I let that wheat go before I have to decide wheather to hay it or not?

It's over knee high,in the boot with about an inch of beard showing. Not firing at the roots yet, but sure looks as tho it's going to just any day now because its getting darker and darker.

I pulled these upper joints at 6am this morning and they have been laying here in the office all day; the top leaves aren't curled in the field.

Oh yeah, planted in last year's alfalfa ground so it's hot soil. :>(

Thanks,

Allan

My neighbor started cutting this morning just as hard as he can go with two 16' swathers. Gotta get whats there or it will just back up into nothing.

Oh well, guess I won't have to worry about gettin' that truck ready for wheat harvest. :>)

Allan