Favorite Crop

ryanwheelock · May 18, 2010

What is or was your favorite crop to work with, overall. I'm sure some like some crops for $$$ reasons and some like others for other reasons. I know it depends on the area too so tell us were. Just wanted your opinions.
Ryan

Fordfarmer · May 18, 2010

While I love teh smell of fresh-cut clover, hay is NOT my favorite crop, as it seems like haying is never done. I'd probably pick corn, especially now that I have better machinery than when I started farming. Planting 6 rows at a time, chopping two rows at a good pace and filling wagons as fast as my help can get empty ones back to the field, or combining 6 rows... Unless stuff is breaking down (I said -better- machinery, not great or new!) I find corn to be the most enjoyable crop. Planting and combining oats, barley or rye is OK, but just not the same as corn.

Anonymous-0 · May 18, 2010

I'd have to say the annual foal crop and the puppy crop :roll:

Never a dull moment.

Dave

thurlow · May 18, 2010

Anyone who's ever combined milo with an open-station or non-air conditioned cab combine would have to say that it's their favorite crop.

Smarty pants · May 18, 2010

Really good sheet man

Flewster · May 18, 2010

(quoted from post at 15:03:46 05/18/10) Anyone who's ever combined milo with an open-station or non-air conditioned cab combine would have to say that it's their favorite crop.

Not sure I would have the same thinkng as you.......cut a lot of acres with open station Gleaner A..........Can't think of one time that I enjoyed it..

For me wheat has to be my favorite.......maybe it is because of all the memories I have of cutting wheat with my Grandpa.....

thurlow · May 18, 2010

I was obviously being facetious........

kyhayman · May 18, 2010

LOL, I hear you. Seems that fine grit that gets in your eyes is just like ground glass.

For me my favorite is square baling timothy hay. I love the smell, the sound of the baler, the yields, and the fact that its a one and done crop.

Stephen in SoKY · May 18, 2010

Regardless how frustrating it was at times, I always enjoyed raising dark tobacco. Dark Air Cured makes you take your time, if you rush, it costs you money. Burley was almost a race to the finish.

Phil in Pa · May 18, 2010

Doing clover seed with an MH Super 26 was a nice, clean job too.

I'm glad I had the experience though, those old combines were cool. Don't see any these days.

kyplowboy · May 18, 2010

Well said. Even air cured is almost an art to get a crop to market. Dark tobacco is by far my favorite crop to mess with.

Dave

Goose · May 18, 2010

I'd have to say wheat. It's easy to grow and fun to combine.

Except once when I had a gas burning John Deere 105 combine and was trying to cut wheat on a 105 degree day. The combine kept vaporlocking. That was definitely not fun. The mechanical fuel pump had to pull the fuel up from the tank. That evening, I mounted an electric fuel pump under the tank so the electric pump would push the fuel through regardless of that the mechanical pump did. Solved the problem.

Adirondack case guy · May 18, 2010

Living here in Central NY, I have to say Corn #1, Alfalfa hay #2. Corn here is harvested as silage and dried grain. Nothing like setting in a tractor and seeing corn as tall as the tractor cab being swallowed by the chopper and spit into a forage hauler, (times have changed). I always liked to chew on those nice peices of supper sweet stalk. (corn candy, and how about that corn squeezins that ran out of the silo when it was fresh?)I especially liked watching the corn stalks disapear below the head of a combine and watch the bin fill with " the golden harvest." Also there is nothing like the smells around a corn dryer on a crisp Nov. day. As I said Alfalfa hay is a favorite too. It is a high protien crop, very labor intensive when made into small bales and mowed away for winter feeding, however when you open up a bale of it in mid Feb. it Makes me think of the weather when it was baled.

Billy NY · May 18, 2010

Oats, seems to pay better than corn for the farmer I've helped, the straw sells, for the most part the fields are easier to work in mid summer than the fall when the weather starts to become a problem.

This year they did 140 acres in oats, not doing much corn, had to cut back on something as he can't really work much anymore, but he's got enough help at least, and is situated so that he won't have to shut down, which after all these years is a sad thing to have to realize.

I like watching it grow, I think the fields look awesome when they are that mint green color, just topped out etc.

cadet trooper · May 18, 2010

I like them all except baling red clover, my hay fever does not like that. Number one would be chopping corn for silage number two would be combining wheat with an air conditioned cab, number three would be a tossup between running good soybeans and shelling corn on a Saturday afternoon listening to the Buckeyes. But the all time favorite would be picking corn on a beautiful late fall afternoon with a one row picker watching the Geese flying south and listening to rooster pheasants toward evening when were wrapping up for the evening.

usetob · May 18, 2010

#1 cotton
#2 rice
#3 all the rest

jwal10 · May 18, 2010

Peppermint. Swathing and chopping. Smells good. Second is wheat. Plowing and seeding in the fall....James

fixerupper · May 18, 2010

Goose it was good to read your post. I thought I was the only one who had to do that. Jim

Anonymous-0 · May 20, 2010

buckwheat, I sow it the 3rd week in July and when my bees are done with it in september, I disk it in for soil improvement

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