Turned some dirt

Bruce from Can. · Jun 23, 2017

Ploughed this field over last evening, turning down manure after hay had been taken off. Today I can watch and listen to it rain. Everything takes so much longer this year , with all of this rain every few days. Took 5 days to do 2 days work hauling out manure, kept getting shut down with rain . Could always travel across the field , but the track together to the field from the yard would turn to mud with just a few drops of rain. Maybe this ground will dry enough tomorrow to disc it over and drag the corn planter acrossed , just a bit of extra silage corn. Don't look like the first cut hay will be very high quality, if we ever get to it . Bruce

LAA · Jun 23, 2017

Odd year, probably at least 1500 miles apart and you can't plant silage corn for rain and we can't chop silage corn for rain.

larry@stinescorner · Jun 23, 2017

There's a chance of rain here in nj today

rrlund · Jun 23, 2017

No plowing here for a while. Another 1.3 inch of rain this morning. That makes 5.75 since Tuesday last week. I've still got 65 acres of hay to cut and a bunch of corn that needs to be sprayed with Roundup.

Adirondack case guy · Jun 23, 2017

Saw one of the local mega dairies making haylage yesterday. Big Clasus chopper, chopping into a dump wagon pulled by a red Steiger. The trucks could not get off the road, so they had to transfer haylage from dump wagon to trucks on the road. The fields were just a mess with deep ruts from the chopper and dump wagon, and they were tearing up the county road very badly where they were loading the trucks.
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K Effective · Jun 23, 2017

(quoted from post at 06:42:11 06/23/17) No plowing here for a while. Another 1.3 inch of rain this morning. That makes 5.75 since Tuesday last week. I've still got 65 acres of hay to cut and a bunch of corn that needs to be sprayed with Roundup.

Well, Randy, we should share a little better. Down here on the Lake, we have had measurable rain seven of those last nine days as well, but have yet to total one inch. One day we got .5, all the others just enough to wet things down, not soak in. We have measured just a quarter inch today.

All my first cutting is either in the mow, or on wagons in the pole barn awaiting loading to the mow. Hopefully, a few cool dry days to get that done. Grapes need spraying again, as well.

rrlund · Jun 23, 2017

That's how I thought it was gonna be here last week. We had three different events Tuesday and Wednesday,two with .35 and one with .2. I figured we'd have to be happy with that,but then it set up and trained right over us Saturday and Sunday.
I don't feel so bad about the 1.3 last night after hearing what happened just north of here. I guess Lakeview,up in the northern part of the county,got 6 inches and Mt Pleasant got 7. Parts of 127 and M20 were closed for a while. Some county roads are washed out. Things already looked pretty bad up that way when I took cattle to St Louis Monday. That rain we had trained over them too. There were a lot of beans that either were or had been,under water. Probably a lot of crop loss after that new flooding. I'm sure glad I sprayed a pre emerge on the corn. It might not be totally clean,but it might have to do.

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