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bjrogg:
It’s been a tough year for farming. We have been fortunate to get as much done as we have. We have been getting lots of rainy days, but fortunately we haven’t had large amounts. Once again very spotty weather and many farmers are way behind. We have for the most part stayed on schedule.
Our sugar beets, corn and soybeans came up good.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
The rainy days have given me the opportunity to do some gathering.
bjrogg:
The cool rainy days have been putting disease pressure on the wheat.
Earlier in the year I had applied two different types of protectants to help prevent disease. Fungicides similar to a fungal soap you would use for yeast infections.
I know which one I won’t be using again. You can see the difference.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
The striped rust is completely taking over where the different protectant I tried was applied. I doesn’t seem to have helped much if any.
The fungus infects the leaves and spreads rapidly in the conditions we have had this spring
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Had a nice Memorial Day weekend.
Was missing the crew from Primitive Archery meet at Marshall, but spent it with family and friends.
Have had lots of rainy days lately and I felt like I needed to start a new project.
I just really got the bug to make a birch bark canoe.
I think I can gather everything from my farm
I started by gathering roots from spruce trees I planted in 1984. I spent a couple lunch breaks. Probably going to need a few more, but here’s the start of my canoe.
Bjrogg
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