The jury is in.

notjustair · Jul 28, 2015

I've been out looking at the beans. I'm optimistic. They had lots of moisture and now it's hot enough. A couple early fields are ready for first bloom. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed.

Finally got the paperwork back from the elevator. All but one of the loads of wheat was zeroed out by toxin. That one may have been also but it was one of the first loads in and they hadn't started testing yet. I guess that's not quite true - one of the loads was still worth 12 dollars. Certainly enough to pay to truck it to town. That will also go a LONG way to pay for the new wobble box on the combine. Wheat has been miserable the last few years. I'm not sure why I bother except that it's what I have always known.

Come on beans - daddy needs to pay the bills!

paul · Jul 28, 2015

I am not in wheat area. The little bit that gets grown might end up cattle feed as much as anything.

I hear the discounts and grading is horrible this year in wheat country.

I stopped growing my last few acres of it back in the 80s when they started the protein grading. I could either get a few bushels per acre, or a passing protein content, but never both. It became a fools errand.

Paul

JD Seller · Jul 28, 2015

I would have left it in the field before I gave it away. The crop would have had some value as fertilize for the next crop.

notjustair · Jul 28, 2015

I was tempted to keep some as hog feed, but the foreign material in it would have meant a mess. I wanted to just turned on the unloading auger over the hog pens and let them pick through it, but it would have had to be weighed anyway. I love the surprise results three weeks after harvest.

There was lots that ended up getting mowed down and then double cropped. I drove around most of the greens spots. After doing that, one 55 acre patch got me a little short of 200 bushels. That's a moment of pride!

David G · Jul 28, 2015

Did the corn from last year have toxin?

RBoots · Jul 28, 2015

On our farm, I only do tillage, most of the repair work, and a little bit of planting (with a drill), and trucking/hauling. My brother and dad do the regular planting, spraying and harvesting. So I don't know much about the crop diseases etc. Anyway, are you guys talking about vomi-toxin (sp?) If you are, what causes it? Can you get rid of it, and does other kinds of crops get it? I'm sure my dad would know, but I figured I'd ask you all. We haven't grown wheat in probably 15 years. Going to get after it again this fall though.

Ross

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