Living the life

Case Nutty 1660

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I have to say I really do Love being able to farm, do I make big money? Hardly but we get by fine though, here like many areas have been dry pretty much all winter, we here are from out of the woods on that but we did get 2"-3" of nice wet snow last night,, first H20 in almost 60 days,, 250 acres of Barley is planted on my farm as of last Saturday,, this snow should give it a boost, I hope everyone needing H20 gets some as well, as everyone knows farming is a gamble and we take that in stride, just the way it is, a few shots from here in the past 10 days, we have had three major timber fires here already may be a bad year for fire, the one in these pics was the smallest so far
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only Barley and I only plant in summer fallow I have no place to sell grain local anymore, closest place is over 100 miles in any direction, so I raise Hay Barley, some acres are for seed most will be baled again this year for hay
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My Grandfather used to say, a couple of inches of snow on freshly planted oats was as good as a coat of manure. Beautiful sunset pictures.
 
Glad your getting the planting done and getting some moisture. Here in Northern Calif. in the last 10 days we have had 9 to 15 in. of rain. A lot of run off. Shasta Lake may fill up this mo. This helps the drought a whole bunch. We will need several winters like this to bring up the ground water. Hope some rain makes it to Wyo. Steve
 
OK, Mr Peanut, at least you wern't roasted in the fire or scorched by the sunset.
An insider joke, in case the rest of you guys don't understand.
Loren
 
Tom you are living the GOOD life, you get to play with your favorite toys and if things work out you will even make a little money. Nice pics and glad to hear you received some H2o, that should help start the barley. Rod.
 
Tom,

That white stuff on top of freshly seeded small grain was always referred to as "poor man's fertilizer" around here. It always seemed to give the small grains a real boost. Don
 
Back it the 50's-mid 70's we use to summer fallow too, but in a good year the barley would lodge, so spring wheat was No 1 choice,and had to bale our oat's for hay, at times too.
 
this is Haybet brand Hay Barley, very different than regular run of the mill Barley, this is a beardless variety that keeps and grows more leaf, cattle LOVE it in a bale or just fed as grain, the straw is very nice as well
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