first planted field I've saw.

Nick m · Apr 18, 2015

Williamston, mi

rrlund · Apr 18, 2015

I'd have got going and got some oats in if I'd known the weather was going to turn out the way it did. They were saying rain Thursday so I didn't bother earlier. Got some manure hauled though and some fix-it jobs done so not a total waste.
I'll have to stop paying attention to the forecast and just get to it one of these days I suppose.

casenut1 · Apr 18, 2015

How do you keep those steep hills from washing away? LOL

Nick m · Apr 18, 2015

I have a hard time with these pics for some reason.

504 · Apr 18, 2015

Corn started going in the ground on the thirteenth here,and crop insurance starts the 15th I have been told. I saw a 24 row planter Tuesday,it looked like it need three tractors to pull it.

Goose · Apr 18, 2015

The fellow who farms the 40 acre field adjoining my property to the south went in with a 24 row planter several years ago. Considering all the time he spent jacking around on the ends, getting the unit lined up properly, etc. someone could have gone in with a planter half the size and have been done in half the time.

I haven't seen him use that 24 row planter again.

Nate V. IA · Apr 18, 2015

Here in central Iowa all the big boy's are running hard, some worked until well past dark last night to beat the rain this morning. Saw one field of oats up yesterday, not a lot of oats planted around me anyway. Neighbor pulled in with his big field cultivator behind the house yesterday afternoon, went about 200 yards and the darn thing was chucked full of trash (corn stalks) he might have to hit that with the disc???

Nate V. IA · Apr 18, 2015

504-

I've seen them plant those Quincy bottoms real early, like first week of March, I'm surprised they waited this long.

I lived in Mendon IL for a couple years.

Nate

Pair-a-dice farm · Apr 18, 2015

Very little is planted in my county in NEAR. There has been some rice that was flown in, I believe that May 1st is the cutoff. I don't know of any corn planted. It's been good so far for us grass farmers that was able to get fertilized early.

IowaJohn · Apr 18, 2015

Not much planted here, went to our daughter's last nite 30 miles north and there was quite a bit in the ground, soybean stubble is wet on top, wetter today. Our daughter is a field agronomist for a big chemical company and has growers wanting their soybeans to start planting.

fixerupper · Apr 18, 2015

The early bird bigger farmers are putting a little corn in the ground here in my part of NWIA. The ground is still cold and they are talking a cool week next week. I'm getting kind of antsy to get going but the ground has to warm up a little first. Last year we had some poorer stands because of spotty emergence from cool soil. I don't want to see that on this farm this year.

keh · Apr 18, 2015

Does corn in the garden count? I have garden corn 3-4 inches tall, planted 1st week in April.

KEH

Davidj · Apr 19, 2015

I was in Williamston for a wedding yesterday. It was at the golf club. Lots of activity too where we're staying near Fowlerville. Nothing yet at home though. (Eastern Ont.)

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