2015 Corn planting in the bag!!!!!

About an hour ago we finished all the corn for this year. The ground was as mellow working as I have ever seen it. The conditions are perfect for a good start. I even switched two fields from soybeans to corn. The ground was working nice and the planter was setup for corn so I just planted all corn. I can make better money on $3 corn than $9 soybeans anyway. I usually can use the corn for feed some how.

I still have a pretty good rotation as I have seeded down more hay ground the last two years. I can rebuild ground with alfalfa and manure. The farm I rented last year is now 50% hay and 50% corn. It is all contour striped again. The soil will stay put now.

The main tractors got just over 200 hours on them in 11 work days. So they did not sit much. The tillage tractors did not get shut off other than to check fluids since last Sunday. Well they did get the oil changed Tuesday morning. It was a hot change. LOL Let them idle for a few minutes and drop the oil plug. Used an old pair of welding gloves to hold on to the filters. We had the oil changed in less time than it took to grease the finishers.

I know the fuel tank took a beating too. I am glad I contracted for fuel there a few months ago. It is about 75 cent a gallon under current cash price.

Now if I could find some feeder cattle that cheap I would be set. LOL

The boys will start planting soybeans Monday if it does not rain. They only have about half as many soybeans to plant. It does take some extra time handling all the extra seed. They use totes for the seed beans.

They will change the planters over to soybeans tomorrow. We take the corn boxes and insecticide boxes off. Then we have a set of three bushel boxes with the bean plates mounted on them. The boxes have extensions so the planter will hold around 65 bushel of seed.

So I hope you fellows are having a good spring planting season too.

I don't do corn but am getting the planter ready to start beans. The ground is a little cold here - the corn is all up but looks a little stressed. Tuesday I will get the bulk bags of beans and things will start. This will be the first year for some Liberty beans. A few fields battled mares tail badly last year's so I needed something that will cut that out. Always something new!

All soybeans here, about 1/3 done.

I would agree the ground is just perfect for planting.

Must be nice to be done with corn already, I haven't seen anyone planting yet hear in SW Ohio but the sprayers are out in force as well as the taragaters putting on fert everyone is getting ready to go but it's been cold and wet hear. I bout got stuck today just trying to brush hogging around the fields. The forecast is for dry warm weather for the next week so I hope to get something done. Bandit

STO N. Cent. Wi. diversified operation...oats , hay ,corn and soybeans. Oats...planted Apr. 18....Corn planted Apr. 28-30. Working or bean ground now. Spun N and K on hay ground May 1.

Could use gentle warm rain!!!

John

My neighbors corn had been planted long enough to about 4''-6''
tall until last Sunday night when we received a big storm with 8'' of rain in 2 hrs including a lot oh hail. Yesterday they were running a field cultivator over the corn that was left plowing it up.

SE WI- Corn here is 2/3 done, and beans 2/3 done. Started mid afternoon Monday.

Southwest Ohio is just getting moving. A lot will get done this week though. We have another day today of hauling manure, then we'll work ground. Aim to plant corn about the 15th

What kind of planter and how wide of spacing on beans?

Finished my corn Saturday evening to. Everything ran perfect with the exception of one seed sensor on the planter. They are predicting rain most of the coming week so beans might be delayed. Could use a good dose of rain tho.

JD 1770 planters. We plant soybeans on 30 inch row. There is very little yield gain with narrow rows on our soil. Also with the white mold issues the wider rows help with that.