May just give up

Steve in VA · Feb 23, 2023

I've been trying to get lime on a field since September. Every 3 to 4 days it rains enough to keep the ground soft and wet. It only froze about 5 days all winter then thawed to be even worse. Today was forecast to be 81 and cloudy. Its been 3 days w/o rain. I figured to get the gardens plowed this morning. As I write this I'm back in the shed listening to the rain fall on the roof. Can't seem to catch a break.

David Snipes · Feb 23, 2023

At least it's not snow. In Spokane, my place is 10 degrees F with howling winds, 3 last night; wind chill below 0. Hang in there!

DanielW · Feb 24, 2023

Ah, the joys of farming. Don't despair; you'll get there eventually. Lime takes a few months to start making any appreciable difference, so a few more weeks probably won't hurt.

Whenever I'd complain about similar circumstances my Grandfather would always quote the last stanza of a Longfellow poem:

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

paul · Feb 24, 2023

Snow in the cornstalks has been too deep to drive through with the 4wd loader tractor or the cattle to graze since december. Been using up all my hay.

Got a blizzard couple days ago, another 16 inches of snow. Now it dropped to minus 16f last night, and around 0 tonight.

I dont know where to pile the snow any more to get in and out of the years. The drifts yesterday were 4 feet to 6 feet in places.

Be careful what you wish for or complain about.

Paul

Steve in VA · Mar 6, 2023

Just off the phone with the Co-Op. Maybe July or August. They're moving on to fertilizer so I may actually hit a full year trying to get this done. I'm not cut out for this. Moving on to other projects.

Brown Dirt Cowboy · Mar 7, 2023

sign up now so you will be the first on the list.

Steve in VA · Mar 7, 2023

I've been first on thr list since 11/01.
Now they have stopped lime to spread
fertilizer. I'm told they will restart
either July or August. May have a lead on
someone else though.

flying belgian · Mar 9, 2023

Just a thought. Could you put it on with the manure spreader? Mix it around with the field cultivator? Might be better then nothing.

Steve in VA · Mar 10, 2023

Yes, but I don't have a speader [no cattle] nor access to 1. Good news is that I found someone to haul and spread. Bad news is the quarries are not milling limestone currently and all inventory is sold. Hope they restart in 2-3 weeks.

VicS · Mar 14, 2023

They have pellet lime. Just have them spread pellet like with the P and K. Like 300lbs.plus 150 and 150 lbs. That will work quick for this year.

Fixingfarmer · Mar 15, 2023

Second the pel lime and doing it with potash and your favorite flavor of p. More expensive and the old school agronomists dont like it maybe but easier to deal with in their spreader. Up here the coop also lets you use a buggy if you have a tractor or even a pickup and can sneak it on yourself the second its dry. Have to do what you have to do. When I do that I double spread it every 20 feet on a 40 foot pattern at half the rate since I dont have gps and am counting rows. They mill the lime year round up here at Alden. Depending on the amount they can literally ship you bags like a seed tote size...

Traditional Farmer · Mar 20, 2023

Buy a small Stolfus spreader and get in the business of spreading lime in your area.Big demand from those putting in deer plots.I can get lime back hauled by a several different truckers pretty easily from quarries in Rockingham County.Best lime I have gotten is from the Frazier quarry near Elkton.Every quarry has a spec sheet on their lime.

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