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Drilling peas and oats

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SVcummins

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Will cut it for hay if we get enough rain to make a crop
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Wish I were doing the same. Oats planted now does pretty good here. Oats planted in May here gets way too late.

We have quite a snow storm predicted for next week. That likely will become less severe as the time comes, but still..... had snow yesterday, 40mph winds, freezing rain, rain. Temps are hovering around 35 degrees. The ground is saturated, cant even walk on the fields, not all the frost is out yet.

Kinda looks like it will be May until we can really get in the fields. Sigh.

Not all that unusual, but we didnt have deep snow and there was an early warm week that really made it look nice and promising for an early spring here.

All we can do for now is look out the window. And see pictures of others in the fields. :)

Paul
 
30 years ago we never ever got in the fields before end of April first of may always had good crops . Me and my cousin drilled peas and oats august 15 one year played heck getting em to dry but we did it .
 
Would be nice if it warmed enough to get the frost out of the ground. Most of it is, but there are all these soft spots yet where the frost isnt out. Been so cloudy and cool and wet for weeks now. Driveway is miserable, the main roads are going to catch hell too as the road beds arent firm under and folk start to ignore the weight limits.

Wears on a person. I live on sunshine, I get a dark personality when there is no sun...... :)

Paul
 
I get a dark personality when there is no rain and a miserable wind that blows from April first until august like last year and its starting all over the exact same way .
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I dont see dry dirt like that until July. Ever! We have 120 feet of yellow and blue clay as our subsoil. Water doesnt perc away, it has to evaporate or wick sideways downslope. The snowmelt and spring rains keep the soil wet into July.

Just never see dry dirt like that here. We can get the top inch to dry off some years but we just dont get powder dry to any depth.

Which is a good thing I know, plants need moisture!

But the mud gets a little overwhelming sometimes. :)

Im farming the bottom of a glacial lake bed here, more or less. Its a water accumulator.

Paul
 
The top soil is dry as deep as you work it here a lot of guys will cultivate and let it set a couple days to dry out then come in and drill : this is still almost mud down below the first two inches but it wont last with a 40 mph gale every day all day .
 
We will work the mud to loosen it up and get some air into it, helps it to dry out. Not really mud, but sticky ground.

The water cant get down through the 120 feet of clay, our soil actually wicks water up to the surface. Its one of the ways to drain it, by wicking upward and encouraging it to evaporate off.

The top soil and top 3-4 feet have just barely enough loam content to allow tile to work. The water will run sideways 30-40 feet and get to the tile over time. But the top remains pretty damp/ wet, still needs to get dried off.

Id probably plant oats and cover crop into this forecast, but not alfalfa interseeding when I want a good alfalfa stand. Just too cold still.

And moot point, ground is too wet before this forecast to get out there.

Paul
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Here in N. Tx. Oats usually get frozen and die....just happened to a new next door neighbor....didn't know that. Wheat does just fine. Neighbor on the other side, a few weeks ago hit the Green Bugs and top dressed with MORE N, His wheat is about the color of Forest Green....but I guess that makes the crop. I do Austrian Field Peas some years and usually let my annual Rye grass head out and make the next year's crop with a annual plant. Works. Bought some Jumbo Rye one year and that stuff is super if you want a winter crop and grows to 3'.....it too reseeds every year.

Problem I have with the peas is that they come off quite a bit earler than the rye grass and the plants are dead by the time I harvest. Also they don't reseed annually.
 
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