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2020 Victory Gardens
mullet:
Two big, ol' thunderstorms. (W
bjrogg:
Stay safe Eddie.
Still got a little more than a month till hunting season here yet HH
I think those blue berrries like a acidic soil WB.
My Navy Beans are starting to turn. Along with a few trees. Navy Beans are the last crop I plant and first one I harvest. They are looking pretty good. Probably be ready to harvest in about three weeks I’m thinking.
Bjrogg
HH~:
Was reading farm report from SD this morning. Kinda tough!
I thought wheat would be bring much more per Bsh!!
Be more small guys going out im afraid.
Shawn~
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: HedgeHunter on August 22, 2020, 11:42:39 am ---Was reading farm report from SD this morning. Kinda tough!
I thought wheat would be bring much more per Bsh!!
Be more small guys going out im afraid.
Shawn~
--- End quote ---
Traditional crops like wheat, soybeans and corn. Prices are pretty pathetic. Wheat is probably the best of the three for us, but the quality is so important that it really makes it risky crop. We grow soft white winter wheat here and there is a premium. However they are extremely picky on quality.
Navy Beans are ok price now if I can get a good yield. Market probably won’t last long if the traditional markets don’t pick up.
Sugar Beets look really good and sugar price is decent. A lot will depend on how we do processing and storing them. Early dig has started. I won’t dig them yet but our Michigan Sugar Coop has started processing beets. Our growers will keep digging just enough beets to keep the factories going. Once we start them they run 24-7. Until mid to late March. Hopefully the beets will store on the outside piles good until then. Last year was a real challenge. Freezing temperatures started early and 25% of crop was harvested in conditions very poor for storage. We did get most processed, but it really went poor and because we processed beets that would store poor first. We lost some of our highest quality beets that didn’t get processed until beginning of April. We were already planting this years crop before we finished processing last years. Never a good thing. Could have been worse. Minn Dak lost something close to 50% of their beet crop they couldn’t get harvested.
Bjrogg
PS I said Navy Beans are first crop I harvest, but wheat really is. I planted it last September though
jeffp51:
My target bale potatoes. just shy of 10 lbs from three bales. I have one more plant in the dirt that is still growing well. looking forward to the roast and potatoes on Sunday.
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