Oats are looking good (pic)

David from Kansas

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Taken today. Arm-pit tall!!
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Where are you at? In NEKS if you walked out in that field you would sink up to your hat. We are about a week away from a soybean disaster. I talked to my guy about prevented planting today. It's not pretty.
 
Never had them that tall but I would be concerned about lodging. We always used to worry from mid-June on about heavy rain or thunderstorms flattening a field and worse yet ragweed showing up late. I would be sunk without a reverse feeder house if ragweed came in late.
 
We are starting to dry out a little. Son was swathing alfalfa today. Nephew was spraying yesterday although I suspect it was plenty soft yet but got to get some weeds killed before it rains again.
In central Kansas, between Lyons and Ellsworth.
We will be haying most of the oats however we want to harvest some for seed to use next year and to feed calves this fall/winter.
I have a little summer-fallow acreage to work but it will be several days even with no rain before it will go.
These are probably the tallest oats we have had for many years.
I haven't seen any soybeans planted yet but there is some corn that got put in before all the rain started and what I have seen looks pretty good. It is also time to plant milo but that is at 0% also. Grass in pastures is tall and lush. Wheat looks pretty good and is turning.
 
THERE IS A GIANT GROUND HOG IN YOUR OATS!!!!

Nice looking crop. I havent seen oats around my area since the 70s.

Rick
 
hope you get them before they lay down,we had them like that last year even though they were planted late and cut down on nitrogen,no winds or heavy rain as they begin to dry they just started laying down but not flat so we didn't loose many at all
 

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