walkin beans is hard work.....

glennster · Jun 29, 2008

but roundup is ohh so much easier. heres a couple pics of my soybeans and corn. so far so good, now if we can get enough sun...rain....no hail....ect ect ect. already made knee high before july 4th.
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Fergienewbee · Jun 29, 2008

WOW!!! Nice looking crops.

Larry in Michigan

Edpap · Jun 29, 2008

Wow, I haven't seen any corn and beans around here that nice. It is a wonder of the modern time, the "roundup ready" bean and corn and seed. there is about 200 acres of beans down the road they no tilled them in corn stubble and now he is waiting to get some cover from the beans before he sprays round up, and it looks terrible. next week he will go in there and spray and in a few days there is nothing but beans. I am just amazed at that. that we could make a plant that will not die when everything else will. I am not a crop farmer I just have a few beef cows and make some hay. I have grown some row crops.but looking at those pictures it makes me want to go hook up the plow and plant some crops. they look realy nice. if I planted those beans down the road I wouldn't want to drive by them, I am not a big fan of no till. I had an old timmer tell me once "you have to get dirt if you want to grow crops" I think he was right.
Good luck with your crops Ed

dave guest · Jun 29, 2008

Beautiful green stuff. I see lotta dedication, Glen.

GeneMO · Jun 29, 2008

Glennster, I can have a crop hail insurance agent in your county drop by to sell you hail insurance!!

Too late to buy Multiple Peril for this year

The combine just left my wheat field a few hours ago. Moisture 15.9, Test weight 53. I think it made a little over 50 bu/acre. We generally raise better than that but this field got hit real hard by scab. That is the reason for the low TW. Just too darn wet, wheat doesn't like it's feet wet.

Had it contracted for $10/ bu. Cash price is somewhere around $7 here.

Glad it's out of the field, it came up a heck of a storm about dark.

Gene

mtgummibear · Jun 30, 2008

Yep...Darn kids don"t know how lucky they have it

Walking the soybeans was the job we all hated as kids. Walking up and down the field for several hours day after day.

When I was about 6-7 years old I couldn"t wait to join my brothers and sisters in the fields. I even remember making my "own" hoe from a stick and an old sickle section. When Pa did let me go along the first time I think I made one round then went and fell asleep in the shade. Much to the disgust of my older siblings who had to keep working.

Thistles, Lambsquarter, Pigweed, Cockleburrs, and Volunteer Corn the bane of my youthful life, but it sure made us appreciate Sunday.

How many of you have memories (GOOD OR BAD) about walking the beans?

Larry

dkennelly · Jun 30, 2008

Yep, sure remember walking the beans, detasseling etc.. Serious question though, I've been looking for bean hooks. Everybody knows what they are, they just can't tell me where to find 'em.. Any ideas?

Anonymous-0 · Jun 30, 2008

Dad called it hoeing beans. When I started I would walk behind my older brother with my hoe. Sometimes he would leave a weed for me to hoe out. As I got older it got to be a real pain, but what I wouldn't give now to have Dad say, I wan't you to hoe beans today. Stan

glennster · Jun 30, 2008

i tried to find em last year, seems nobody makes em anymore. i wound up making one from an old disc blade and a handle i bought at the hardware store. i used a disc blade because it holds an edge real good.

walkin beans is hard work.....

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