Posted by Fixerupper on June 04, 2011 at 19:42:42 from (207.199.205.239):
Our daughter was born on June 4th 1975 and that year I hadn't planted one bean seed yet here in NW Iowa. It was pretty darned wet that spring, like what you guys in the eastern states are going through now, and I was disking cornstalks at 1:00 AM with my brand new 1070 Case and new Case 21 foot disk when I got notice the time had come.
Took her to the hospital and a thunderstorm came through that knocked out the electricity while she was in labor. It rained like cats and dogs that night which set us back some more. Don't remember when I finished planting but I had somewhere around 250 acres of beans to plant with a 51 JD A and IH 58 6 row 30 planter.
Had a late frost that fall and the beans yielded somewhere in the mid-30's which was about average for the time. Come to think of it, one 6 acre field just wouldn't dry out and was planted on July 10 and yielded 20. Just reminicing. Jim
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