Same reason you have planter issues right along the main road
2025 field work
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Oh no I'm prime for that. I'll check it over in the field behind the shed and it'll be good to go...get to a field right along a highway and never fails something goes wrong.
Put corn in the ground. Earliest ever and hope it doesn’t freeze off.
Sugar snap peas are coming up already. Radishes and onions in last week. Put in two rows of carrots yesterday.
30 tomato and 28 peppers plants are about 3” tall already. Started them from seeds.
30 tomato and 28 peppers plants are about 3” tall already. Started them from seeds.
We're north of Highway 20 and go this early relatively frequently. I wouldn't get too concerned in SW Iowa.
That damn wind can stop blowing!!!! That’s about all I have to say.
Be like last year. Plant until April 21 then out until May 10. I'll take rain but hopefully nothing like we had last year during those weeks.
Gross. Plant it all now lol
We were out a almost a month. Corn April 10-15, then beans 21-24. Couldn't make it back in until May 18-19 even then being tackier than you'd like.
For me there was almost no drag on yield with the late planted too early planted. Had a better stand/emergence with the late stand. My issue was drown out. Had to compare small areas that weren’t too wet because the first planted was better tiled.
At least for us it seemed, hard to be certain because it wasn't the same field, though it was the same variety and less than a mile away, like there was a 2-3 bpa yield drag for the later soybeans. Might have just been the worse field conditions but quite frankly the ground was always wet late May and June, had a tough time getting corn sprayed last year.
Maybe I should mention a certain guy and a certain coop so we won’t talk about 2024 crop season? Na not a good idea.
Ok I might get in trouble here, but I think this is funny. Back ground info, there is a trucking company in Britt Iowa, right along HWY 18. Ok, now forget that. The same guy farms also. 10,000 plus acres. The green equipment guy from Humboldt has 5 repair trucks in his field chasing the planter around. When the repair man rides in the planter tractor, the planter works fine. When the repair man rides man leaves, the planter is a mess in less then a half hour. The farmer is told it is operator error. That pisses the farmer off. The repair man gets it running, is ready to get out of the tractor, and he tells the farmer to leave things ALONE. The guy running the planter is one of the owners.
One more thing, Go Cyclones.
One more thing, Go Cyclones.
Isn’t it the owners kid that is incharge of farming? They lost a couple solid farm background employees the last year or two.
A large dealership owner told me this story when I asked if he had problems with older farmers like me adapting to operating technology on modern planters. One of his big customers bought a new planter with all the bells and whistles. After they got it set up in the field, he’d constantly call with problems and they’d have to walk him thru, over the phone, where to touch the screen to perform functions…..hourly. On the second day, the screen went blank and quit working so they took him out a new screen. Same repeating problems with the screen crashing the second day again. They figured out he was getting pissed off and punching the screen too hard which was breaking it. They pulled his traded in planter off the lot and took it back to him and took the new one back to the dealership.
Take a drive through Wisconsin, they think the guy with a 6 row 30” is showing off. Several 4 row 36 inchers up there.My older 8 row is almost an embarassment with all the 24 row planters around me.
