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bjrogg:
We did get pinto beans harvested. All except for a neighbors and one headland next to woods that wasn’t rip yet.
Weren’t as good of yield as I was hoping for but really good quality.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
I did have a few minutes one morning and I picked up a stave that DVS Hunter gifted me when I visited him. It was only 50” so it fit in my vehicle which was already packed.
It is a nice clean stave and I really think I can split off a nice belly stave
It goes perfect and I even have time to chase a ring and seal it.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
The rye, bean, radish cover crop is really growing nice. Could use a little rain again.
The turkeys seem to like it
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We cleaned combines and switched to black beans. Did about half of ours and some neighbors. Waiting for the rest to get ready.
Getting grain drill ready to plant wheat.
First half of black beans went really smooth. Yield is okay I’m hoping the second half yields better.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Well a lot has happened since I last checked in.
We finished all of the bean harvest. For ourselves and our neighbors.
We finished planting all of our winter wheat.
We chopped corn for silage to fill my son’s bunker silo.
We spread rye cover and did tillage on all of our harvested fields that didn’t have a winter wheat crop on them.
We have dug early dig beets three times now and have about 30% of our crop harvested and made into sugar already.
We are delaying permanent pile harvest for another week. We are hoping to get better sugar content and storage conditions.
I’m pretty happy with our yields so far. I think the best of our beets are still out there putting on tons and sugar. It’s been a fairly dry year but our crops did remarkably well and harvest has been pretty “easy “ so far. I’m afraid that’s not the case for everyone. Lots of disease pressures. It was very difficult to control and with the dry weather it was hard for the crop to grow out of the damage. I think once again the cover crops we have been growing and the structure of our soil helped us tremendously in this situation.
And maybe we got a little lucky to
We did get a good soaking rain over the weekend. That should help rehydrate our sugar beets and help with their storage.
Bjrogg
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