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rrlund

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Rain all day last Thursday,another all day rain predicted for tomorrow,more Thursday. It's not bad today. I'm at that frustrated point that I'll try anything to get in a half days work. I know better than work any ground with more rain coming,but I thought just maybe it had settled down enough to get some manure hauled on some ground I want to get covered.
I jumped in the pickup,drove down there and pulled in to the corner of the field. I didn't have sense enough to put it in four wheel drive. It started spinning,I stopped and put it in,but it was too late. It wouldn't move. I didn't have a phone with me,had to walk to a neighbor's and call home. We got it out,but I'm not going to be easy to live with if I have to sit around and wait on the weather much longer.
 
Been almost a month since we have been able to get into field. Rain for next 5 days and large amounts predicted for tomorrow.
 
I totally understand, it hits me hard, can't sleep, or eat and nervous as a cat on a tin roof. I have heard all of that guff about their is nothing you can do about it, but it flat sucks watching your hard work literally go down the drain. I have some of the prettiest clover and alfalfa ready to cut right now and its raining cats and dogs. The biggest problem next is to throttle myself back to make sure the field is good and dry...
 
I'm sure it is getting awful frustrating by now. When the rain does quit it won't come back again and we will be crying for rain. Here in my neck of the woods we get two or three days of field work then two or three weeks of too wet. Got the corn done yesterday but I had to work my butt off during the three day window to get the job done. Spun through several places with the field cultivator so those places will have a poor yield for the rest of the year but with three days of rain in the forecast I can't wait for that extra day of dry time. The first corn planted three weeks ago stood in water a week but it wasn't out of the ground yet so the jury is still out on that one. I hope you can get dried out and in the field soon. Son has been hauling fertilizer for the elevator and said they got a floater stuck in a field. The farmer had just as well write off that spot this year.
 
Had a wonderful week to work, of course main tillage tractor had the front spindle break last weekend and parts came Thursday, so had to limp along with underpowered tractor and old small field cultivator. Plus a day of putzing to take apart, pick up parts, and put back together. Wife would do the tillage, but planting and wrenching is up to me so when something is broke everything sits still....

Then Mother's Day, visit mother in law Sumday, don't know how many more of those we have can't skip that and regret....

Worked like heck on Friday and Saturday, got a lot done but more to do. Did get 30 acres disked up Sinday evening, untouched cornstalks and be a stubble the cattle were on all winter. The rain will be good for that now. Started a couple hours ago.

Just wish it wasn't 3-4 days of rain again, that tries a farmers patience......

Paul
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Ready to get the drill out and plant what rrlund planted two weeks ago. Today would be a great day except we have a family tragedy (funeral) out of town. Tuesday is forecast rainy, besides I took a substitute job. Maybe I'll get lucky Wednesday or Thursday. Anybody buy any alfalfa seed? Man,they know how to bill for that. Call me frustrated as well. Shearing this weekend whether we get planting done or not.
 
We are only about 100 miles east of you and pretty near all the corn is in. Starting beans tomorrow, lots in already, have not had a significant rain in almost 3 weeks. 3 consecutive nights of frost though. Ben
 
I feel relieved when the oats are in so I can have a week to get ready to go with the corn,but it was bad enough a week ago when I was looking down the barrel of a second week of nothing to do,but a third week is getting to be too much. I've even resorted to getting hay tools ready to go and tinkering with an old tractor,but I'm too on edge to even feel creative and do a good job on anything like that.
I started cutting hay on June first last year,but the window is closed tight on having all the corn in by then this year. It was June 23rd when I finished silage corn a few years ago. I don't think I can take that much stress again this year.
 
3 weeks ago there were some in my neck of the woods that planted corn like it was mid-May I was 1. It's been raining pretty much ever since, 5" total. A lot of folks here finished corn yesterday the early planted is up and he stand looks even and the corn is nice green color. There are a few beans planted around here I'm 1/3 done but it looks like we're rained out the rest of the week.
 
And here I am on the udder side of the pond hoping it rains a little more then it has been, have not got much since March, just enough once in while to wet the ground good but then dries up quick, not hurting for moisture but if don't get much the next month or so could get dry around here cause it usually don't rain much in July and August.
 
Here in semn, we have been on the dry side, but it is raining now. The corn is done, and some guys are done with beans. The problem we have is a lack of heat. Didn't turn the air on the planting tractor once. Corn that was planted three and a half weeks ago is just starting to come up, with stories of poor stands. With highs in the mid 50s, and lows in upper 30s coming for this weekend. At least it is early enough to replant!
 
Hang on, don't think the peepers have froze 3 times yet here. I am spreading the nitrogen today, though. Had frost on the roofs this morning!
 
There's some corn going in on high ground around here,but the way my rotation is with alfalfa this year,everything I have going to corn is low or has too many low spots to mess with.
 
The local fellows have been putting corn in, but it is still pretty cold. I haven't rototilled the garden yet, but may get to it this week. I think we can get the peas and onions in now. It really does need to warm up about 5 degrees yet here to get anything growing.
 
I took a few days off work last week to get the oats and corn in. this trying to farm on the weekends is tough. I hope haying time things get better??..
 
By the way,if you think alfalfa's priced bad,check the price of brome. $260 a bag. I only gave $185 for alfalfa.
 
RRLUND I feel your pain. By this time last year I had all my corn in and was starting beans. This year I have not even plowed yet. The way my rotation fell this year put most of my high ground into winter wheat....soooo...here I sit putzing around fixing little stuff and fidgeting. I am about 25 miles south of lansing. According to the weather guessers I hope to start plowing Monday and disk wed. and plant Friday and saterday. Hopefully you get the same break in weather that I am supposedly getting.


Matt
 
I have to laugh...sorry! Not a lot makes me laugh this time of year. Allergies making me ill, weather frustrating the heck out of me. Last year I had fits with the IH planter so when a JD came up for a good price I grabbed it. Everyone told me they were superior. Pulled it out last weekend and drove it around and found out WHY it was at the auction...there is always a reason on this old equipment. As of today I have exactly twice as much in new parts as I paid for the planter but I think it will all go back together before dinner...hopefully...and THEN it is going to be one heck of a nice unit. One has to wonder what defective gene in my DNA makes me want to get up out of a perfectly comfortable office chair and go out in the mud and play around with 30 year old equipment while the local BTO/MBA's are across the road in their air conditioned cabs monitoring their GPS and checking their phones. Dunno what it is, but no plans to stop doing it. :)
 
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