2025 field work
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I'm pretty glad we pushed as hard as we did to get all of our corn and some soybeans in. I suspect both will be out of the ground early next week.
Only downside is we didn't get preemergent down for my field of soybeans. Going to have to pivot from my original plan there.
Only downside is we didn't get preemergent down for my field of soybeans. Going to have to pivot from my original plan there.
Meh, I saw 2019 and 2024 (both late) and I've seen plenty of stand establishment issues. Give me a slightly reduced stand. Also, if you don't get oversaturated, you aren't going to have a lot of trouble with stand establishment. If soil conditions are right and there's nothing crazy in the forecast, go plant. When I was younger I would have said something different and I was always on the wrong side of that decision when it rained a couple times in the next two weeks and pretty soon it was May 10th with nothing done. Also, Imbibitional Chilling is a huge anomaly that needs such a rare string of events to happen I don't think we should even talk about it anymore like we did before that 2020 Purdue article that every seed company agronomist glommed onto.
We have 100 acres of corn left that's gotten a lot more rain than the rest of our stuff. Going on beans now and I'd bet we will finish beans before we get to that corn, which is just fine.
We have about 500 of corn left and only 300 of beans. Really wishing I would have pushed harder then what I did. We will finish beans before the corn ground will be fit now
Got an email (group one) from the co-op not to be named. Good Lord, whoever is doing the communications is extremely tone deaf. Start well and then show bitterness at the end.
Deleted it. I will say, change should come east because it appears everyone is quitting. Tell you how great it is. A person they hired quit after 2 days because they were told they could get unemployment. So 60% is better than working there? Kinda scary.
I better not go any further so this doesn’t get locked.
Missed he rain tonight, will try to put more corn in the ground tomorrow P.M.
Just checked corn planted April 15th and it has 1.5 inches to emergence. You can do it little buddy! Don’t quit now!
Finished corn planting, corn planted 17th coming up.
Looking at Monday. Been wet the whole spring. Finally will have a few days that are warm without rain starting then.
Calving is done. Terresa Bryant said rain all day in the QC area, so I worked into the wee hours of the morning today and wished I had stopped at dark. My windshield barely got wet today! I'm trying to calm down and going to bed and hope tomorrow is a better day. I am so behind. I won't be done until Memorial Day, I bet. I hope my boy doesn't think he is going to "chill" for a few days when he moves home from Ames the 16th. He will be in a tractor that afternoon.
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Got enough rain this evening to stop but not enough to do any good. Frustrated as I was hoping for a long day as wont be able to be back in planter for a few days due to kids, life, etc.
Need to keep reminding myself it’s only April 30 and we are 75 percent done.
Need to keep reminding myself it’s only April 30 and we are 75 percent done.
Was able to work a little ground yesterday afternoon but enough mist this morning to put a halt to things. Most of the field was good to go but 10ish acres of wet spots.
