Seeded down some hay/oats this week!!

I got to seed some hay ground down to alfalfa and orchard grass. I used oats for a cover crop. The cost of the seed sure has not gone down any!! I seeded down 65 acres total including two waterways. It looked like the Farm progress show for while. LOL The boys have put all the new fangled GPS auto steer stuff in the field work tractors, JD 4960 and JD 8330. They wanted to try it out and get the systems fine tuned. So they ran the finisher over the ground I was seeding down. When you have a 31 foot and a 40 foot finisher 65 acres des not take long. I was using my JD 8300 24x6 drill. It took me all day to drill what they worked down in a few hours messing around.

They did find a real good deal on the Sunflower 40 foot finisher. A dealer had it in stock since 2012, unassembled. They got it for around 60% of the best price we could find for a current year machine. They did have to drive to ND to get it but they saved enough to make it worth while.

The 31 footer we have had for 14-15 years. It has been one of the BEST buys on the farm. It is a Sunflower as well. We have only replaced the shovels in all of the acres it has covered. The original blades are still within an inch of new diameter.

It really amazes me how fast ground can be worked anymore.

Also got a new digital camera. I took pictures of stuff during the day. The pictures look real good on the camera. It will not down load them. I even took it back to where I bought it and they can't get it to work either. They are replacing it but my pictures are toast. DARN!!!!

had a scare with my camera,was tilling with the troy bilt,stopped took some pictures,went back to tilling with camera in pocket,,,later realized no camera in pocket,,,,,luckily it fell out of my pocket on the lawn,,,,could have been a disaster,,,I have to be more careful,,I was in big hurry,it was starting to rain,,,but still had to stop and take a picture for Y/t? Im am hooked!

We got a nice rain last night, hope you did too, will get the seed going.

Was out yesterday overseeding some clover, I use a 3 point Herd seeder while pulling a 12ft chain harrow, works pretty good.

Anyway, realized I lost my phone out of belt holster, started thinking "WHY haven't I downloaded all those pics/videos off of my phone?"

So I found my phone, still worked after getting run over with the harrow, promptly forgot about downloading the pics....until now.

Downloading as I type.

Thanks for the reminder.

Fred

JD Seller,
Do you take the oats off as oatlage, or let it mature?
Pete

Pete: I usually chop the oats/hay/weeds LOL It seems like it is impossible to get clean oats anymore. Also I do not want to shade out the hay under the oats. So They will be chopped.

Thanks,
I'm trying to figure a way plant a cover with my new seeding, but I only do hay, so I don't really have a way to handle the oats.
Pete

Feels good to be out there planting something. I seeded a one acre waterway to oats and brome three weeks ago and it's coming up now. When I seeded it this was the only dry spot on the farm and it was hidden back behind a hill so none of the neighbors could see me.