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Krista McGruder

09-07-2004 09:20:38

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I'm a writer who lives in New York but I grew up near Eagle Rock, Missouri. Unfortunately, my farming grandfather passed away many years before I could learn much about farming from him. The novel is set near Vinita, OK and the objective is an alfalfa crop on seventeen acres of planted land. The time is now (2004-2005)
I could use basic time frames when it comes to planting, cultivating, harvesting, baling and storing an alfalfa crop. I would appreciate any advice/information and any help that I get would be acknowledged in the forthcoming book, titled "I Once Was Blind.
Thank you.

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jason(ma)

09-08-2004 20:08:20

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Krista McGruder, 09-07-2004 09:20:38

go to www.okstate.edu you want to find the extention service pages, plant and soil science dept. They have a fact sheet that will tell you about growing alfalfa in OK.

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jason(ma)

09-08-2004 20:12:13

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to jason(ma), 09-08-2004 20:08:20

here is the link, you also could call Dr. Caddel, I don't think he has retired (someone in the dept just did I just can;t remeber right now)

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Leland

09-07-2004 17:55:10

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Krista McGruder, 09-07-2004 09:20:38

Krista don't forget the taste it leaves in your mouth at end of day, and the stuff you hack up for 3 days after baling.And the green tint you have after 23 days of non stop baling.

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Allan in NE

09-07-2004 18:57:35

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Leland, 09-07-2004 17:55:10

Leland,

That brings to mind the ringy ole' boys up north of here in south central SD who still stack by hand.

They wear chaps all summer to keep the rattlesnakes off 'em. At the end of the haying season, those chaps are green.

They tell me it is from the rattlesnakes striking that leather all summer that turns them green.

I don't know if that is true or not, but I know one thing, I just ain't a gonin' in their hayfields to find out, for nothin' :>)

When I was a boy and up on the stacks, I remember the garden snakes and bullsnakes always being swept up and coming up in the loads; I can handle them, but not those darned rattler's.

Allan

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Leland

09-08-2004 14:51:22

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Allan in NE, 09-07-2004 18:57:35

Allen we had no rattlers but plenty of other snakes, but something just as bad skunks. When I would mow the 1st cutting we would run many of those little critters thru the haybine, after 3-4 days in sun they had a little stinch to them. And the kids would roll every stinky bale over looking for the skunk it was funny.

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JMS/MN

09-07-2004 14:39:53

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Krista McGruder, 09-07-2004 09:20:38

I hope that the premise of the book is not that the farmer makes a living with seventeen acres of alfalfa. That won't happen. Alfalfa is not planted, it is seeded. Generally seeded one year and harvested a number of times for each of several succeeding years. It is not cultivated. Inopportune rain during harvest is the biggest threat to producing a quality product. In Northern regions of the US we harvest 3-4 times per year, while Southern areas may get up to 6 cuttings per year. Baling hay too soon after cutting, before proper drying- even without rain, gives rise to a moldy, unsaleable, unfeedable product. Good luck on your project.

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Nebraska Cowman

09-07-2004 17:21:36

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to JMS/MN, 09-07-2004 14:39:53

[quote]Alfalfa is not planted, it is seeded. [/quote] kind'o depends where you live jms, here in Nebraska we still "plant" alfalfa with a "drill"

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kyhayman

09-07-2004 17:54:10

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 09-07-2004 17:21:36

Us too, here in Kentucky. In fact I've never heard of it referred to as seeding alfalfa that I can recall (or anything else, except in greenhouse crops). Just one more example of local terminology. We 'plant' seeds and 'set' transplants.

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Krista McGruder

09-07-2004 14:46:39

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to JMS/MN, 09-07-2004 14:39:53

thanks for the response; not not a farmer making a living, but an aerial photographer who wants to cultivate the purple flowers for mowing, then taking aerial shots of the designs.

i"m learning, bit by bit, thanks for your help

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txblu

09-08-2004 10:37:41

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Krista McGruder, 09-07-2004 14:46:39

You're the second Krista named person I've heard of. The first one was a real knock out and tons of fun. One heck of a personality and excitement and good looks too. Made you feel great just to be around her. Worked with her.

Mark

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Allan in NE

09-08-2004 12:15:42

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to txblu, 09-08-2004 10:37:41

Yeah but Mark,

Remember when they canned ya? She took your job.

:>) Naw, just kiddin' around,

Allan

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txblu

09-09-2004 05:57:08

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Allan in NE, 09-08-2004 12:15:42

Naw man, it's better than that. She was selling (for an outside supplier) and I was buyin. Leave it at that. Grin (Let your mind wander if you want to.)

Mark

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Allan in NE

09-09-2004 06:40:06

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to txblu, 09-09-2004 05:57:08

Oh, her.

Heck I know who you are talking about now. :>)

*Is this called wasting bandwidth? :>)

Allan

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txblu

09-10-2004 06:16:27

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Allan in NE, 09-09-2004 06:40:06

Yeah right. On the bandwidth, that's what it's for..... .havin fun.

Mark

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Allan in NE

09-08-2004 12:12:42

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to txblu, 09-08-2004 10:37:41

Yeah but Mark,

Remember when they canned ya? She took your job.

:>) Naw, just kiddin' around,

Allan

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jls

09-07-2004 20:12:09

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Krista McGruder, 09-07-2004 14:46:39

um--- problem, those little purple flowers are only 3/8" or less and don't open at the same time. Alfalfa looks dark green from the platform of a tall tractor; however the stubble is almost a pale yellow on a tan background(dirt) nice contrast to the dark uncut crop.

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Coloken

09-07-2004 11:48:23

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Krista McGruder, 09-07-2004 09:20:38

Your on the right track. I suggest that when you finish it, that you have a farmer proof read it with attention to the farming details. I am a western book reader and it realy Ts me off to see obvious mistakes. Zane Grey Jr had no idea of if a ranch had 100 cows or 10,000 or if a load of hay was worth 10 dollars or 500. Many writers have wrong trees growing in wrong area. Etc. Good luck on book

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thurlow

09-07-2004 16:19:26

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Coloken, 09-07-2004 11:48:23

Well, you've done it now..... ...please explain the comment about (Pearl)Zane Grey, (Jr)..... .I'm highly offended, although I agree he only had 3 or 4 story lines, for all his 60 plus????? books. Don't know about the Jr part????? Not really offended.....

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Coloken

09-07-2004 17:54:45

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to thurlow, 09-07-2004 16:19:26

Now I've done it too....old memory. Think I am thinking about Romer Zane Grey. Amyway, next time you watch "Return to Lonesome Dove", the one where they are all ways crossing the river to where the Mexican kid's mother lives... look which way the river is running. From right to left from the Mexican side. Oh well, time they take my crayons away.

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thurlow

09-07-2004 18:48:39

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Re: Writing a novel involving planting and harvest in reply to Coloken, 09-07-2004 17:54:45

Okay, now I get it; Romer..... ..tried a time or two to read his stuff..... not the same as his old man's. Loved Lonesome Dove (the original), but Jon Voight..... no way. Two of my all time favorite Western characters....Capt. Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones) and Capt. Augustus McCrae (Robert Duvall). My only problem with the whole deal is that Jones roomed with Al Gore in college; just keep telling myself that he didn't know that his roomie was gonna wind up being "that" AL GORE..... ..I'm from Tennessee and he's NOT; he was raised in D.C. or somewhere.....

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