Oats

formenwhogrow · Apr 4, 2020

Been drying out fast her in western pa over the past few days. I have some ground planted to Rye as a cover planning to spray tomorrow and hopefully
no till oats by Monday. Anyone ready to plant oats?

rrlund · Apr 4, 2020

Too much rain. I've got some ground that'll be ready in a hurry when the weather finally breaks,but another field with a few wet spots,so I don't know when those will go in. I'm determined to plant that field though so I can seed it back to alfalfa. Two out of the last eight or ten years,I was all done planting oats by this time.

flying belgian · Apr 4, 2020

I'm ready but the ground isn't. Maybe Monday. So. Mn.

formenwhogrow · Apr 5, 2020

We are lucky here I guess. Got 10 acres of oats and alfalfa seeded down today. Gonna do 4 more acres tomorrow. Also spreading some ammonium sulfate on hayfields and rye ground tomorrow. One thing quarantine is good for is getting farm work done.

Loosehandle · Apr 9, 2020

No market for oats here, do you feed them yourself?

formenwhogrow · Apr 10, 2020

Mostly use them for a nurse crop to plant alfalfa. This year I'm going to try to get them combined and use then for in some hog feed.

rrlund · Apr 10, 2020

I grind mine with ear corn and feed them to calves in the creep feeder.

D13series2 · Apr 11, 2020

I?m about an hour south of rrlund and would need hip waders to plant oats! The giant clay slick in the Port Huron MI area is flat and I have water standing in the furrows from last fall?s plowing efforts.

tomstractorsandtoys · Apr 11, 2020

I planted 15 acres here in southern WI this week. 10 was worked ground and 5 was a steep hill that was notilled and then rolled.Plan to chop mine for silage for the beef cows when it is in the late dough stage. We have a direct cut(mower bar) head for the chopper. Will combine two acres for seed to plant after we combine our rye. Tom

Leroy · Apr 12, 2020

Oats is very good in a hog feed ration. It is the grower part of the feed and corn the fattener part.

Robert (ID) · Apr 12, 2020

Spent yesterday In the 4-150 dragging the disc around. I hope that with weather permitting in the next week to be able to do a little more ground work. Then drag out the drill and get some triple mix with oats planted.

formenwhogrow · Apr 14, 2020

Well my alfalfa beat my oats out of the ground. Lots of little sprouts and the oats have just started to pop. Going down in the 20s, and I rally hope it doesn't freeze out my alfalfa. Damn weather.

rrlund · Apr 18, 2020

All done. I planted half yesterday, the rest today. That Oliver grain drill that I bought had been sitting for about 20 years. The first hour was a bit of a problem, getting all the rust, used oil and hickory nuts out of it, but after that, it went as smooth as can be.

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