Finally getting crops in!

RBoots

Well-known Member
After the coldest,wettest spring in a few years, things have finally warmed up, dried out and cooperated enough to fit some fields and get some crops in the ground here in the Maple River lowlands in central MI. We almost always plant the corn first, but due to just wanting to get things done, we are planting both crops at the same time, as soon as I have the fields ready. A few of the fields still have some wet spots that are still going to need some drying, but we are concentrating on getting the majority of the crops in first, then we will go back and air out the wet spots and drill soybeans in them. The first picture is taken from my yard looking across the road where my shop is at the field we finished this morning. The second picture is taken next to my shop of the same field. This field had not had a crop on it for 40 years, it was in CRP for much of that time. This year will be our 3Rd year farming it. It took A LOT of work to get it to this point. Good luck to you out there and hope you get the fair weather we have had the last week!

Ross
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Yep,I just responded to Fullers Farmalls. I'm half done. Picking corn's in,got silage corn to plant yet. Still some water standing in those fields. Had to plant around one little wet spot today.
 
Really wanted to get out there last week when it was nice, but it took almost all of that nice weather to dry it out enough to even get started. Still a couple nice days coming up yet it looks like.

Ross
 
I feel ya on the wet fields. I just no-tilled in my corn yesterday. Had some pucker areas where the tractor acted like it would spin down. Today I ran the disk over all the other wet fields, just to break them up and dry the surface. I can tell right where the tile are and about how deep they are according to how wide the dry spot over them is.
 
Yeah no kidding on the pucker areas lol. A county drain dumps into our woods across the road bordering the field in the picture. I had a couple spots I had the field cultivator all the way up and was still digging, and spinning lol. But with that wind and sun the last couple days, it straightened out quick.

Ross
 
I had to chain the disc out of one spot Saturday. I got in a little closer today,but I didn't have the chain with me and lost my nerve. Wasn't a big enough spot to take the risk anyway.
 
I must admit, I wondered if anyone would notice something usually out of place in the bottom picture...


Ross
 
You got it! Sorry but I don't have any prizes to give out lol. My neighbor is a very ingenious man, and built it for something to do. It is either 5 or 6 full 10' stories. The blades are steel, and turn in the slightest of breeze. The blade is mounted on a 6" shaft, and has a huge drum and steering band from a dragline on it as a brake. It is probably a 6" wide band, and about 3 1/2' diameter. We tore down an old beam construction house, and he used that lumber to finish what he had started years earlier. He has a sawmill set up just to the left of it. Was over there a couple weeks ago and took a bunch of pictures of "interesting stuff", but they are on my old phone, I'll have to switch them to my new phone.

Ross
 
Just hope Don Quixote doesn't show up and start jousting. LOL Seriously that is quite an impressive structure. Even after I retired I don't have the time it would take to complete a project like that. Of course I don't have the skill either!
Thanks for the photo & info.
 

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