Pictures of the planted corn and mowing rye grass

Here is some pictures I took around the farm this afternoon.

Some of the first corn we planted on Sunday afternoon May 12th. So it has been in the ground just 9 days. This is in bean stubble. The ground worked real mellow and great moisture.



This corn was planted May 14 around noon. It is corn on corn. It has only been in the ground one week. I think that is pretty good growth.



This is one of the fields of Rye Grass I am going to bale for hay. It really has grown this last two weeks. It is heading out so we just started mowing it today.



Here is some of the rye in the windrow. It is going to make quite a few bales.



Here is some of the fence I built this spring. This is five strands of barbed wire with wooden post on all the corners. Every other post in the line wood and then steel. Makes a good cattle tight fence.



Here is one of the steepest contours we farm. You really pull a tractor climbing up out of the bottom of this water way. This rye in where I feed some of my beef cattle out side all winter. This was corn last fall and then we chopped it. I then sowed rye on it for a cover and spring forage. The cold spring really held it back. I will plant this field back to corn. It is only a few hundred feet from the one silo. Plus the bottom ground in this field has top soil 3-4 feet thick. We tiled it years ago and rarely got below the top soil. So I manure the heck out of it and pretty much raise continuous corn on it.



We did some stand counts this afternoon too. Most where in the 34,000-35,000 live plants per acre. This is right where I want it to be on my good ground. We have a good start on a real good corn crop.

Thanks for sharing JDseller. Andy

Jd everything is looking good! That rye grass looks great.

Looking good. Stan

JD Seller, I was always told corn does not do good following rye. So we always follow it with beans, and they seems to do good. Have you ever heard this? and ever tried beans?

We have followed it with corn for years. The only issue we have had is in dry years the rye will pull too much moisture out of the ground so you have to have some rain after planting to get the corn to come up. Usually we are 2-3 weeks earlier than this. The cool spring weather coupled with the dry fall caused the rye to just set there early.

If you shred the rye down it will effect new growing plants. I know of several organic guys that shred it down and no-till plant into the mulch for weed control.

Awesome pics JD, thx for sharing with us.

nice pics, looks like a good sturdy fence ya got there. Pretty country!

Nice pics. I enjoy the pictures of contour farming, real pretty country. Thanks for sharing with us.

Crops look great there. Thanks for sharing the nice pics of your area. Hope all is well there.
Kow Farmer Kurt

Hope that geezer doesn't fall over in that rye....he would take a
lot of it down with him....LOL. Crops are looking good JD . We are
suffering a very late season here also. Silage cutting only started
yesterday, the crops are about similar to your rye grass. should
have been started around the 9th-10th of May and the crops
should have been better. some spring barley still to go in and the
veggie growers are about 5 weeks behind. The soil and air temp
is still cold here for this time of year and we keep getting these
d*mned showers of quite heavy rain.
Hope you have a great growing season....
Sam

Nice pics as usual. Crop looks gorgeous.

Have to laugh at you guys and your top soil up there. Down here
it's measured in inches and that's just inches, not feet + inches.

Glad for you.

Mark

Hey Jd.......there's about a 320 lb white dude standing out there in your rye. If he falls over he's gonna knock down a LOT of stuff. 'Just sayin'...........

Nice looking "stand" of Rye grass; should make a lot of hay.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

Hey JD, I sure would like to have some of that flat ground to work with around here. Good looking crop, Keith

Nice corn and grass. Thanks for posting!