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Buckskinner:
That is a sweet arrow, should have gotten more! Still waiting for my beets to pop up in my garden, one of my favorite veggies. Corn rows showed up yesterday behind the house and we could use some rain. Very slow spring for getting crops in around here, I would guess only about 50% in now.
bjrogg:
Yea WB I wish it was that easy. The windmills were a real pain when they were putting them up and running all the underground wire. It’s a lot better now that they are sprouted and grown up.lol
Bjrogg
PS yes I worry about getting the beets planted. Then I worry about getting them up. Then I worry about all the things trying to kill them before I harvest them. Then I worry about harvesting them. Then I worry about getting them processed before they rot on the piles. Life would certainly be much less worrisome without them. Last year we had a record crop for tons. We had 25% more tons last year than our highest tons the year before. Unfortunately we had to dispose of 20% of our crop and the sugar content was so low that even if we could have processed every ton, we would have had about 10% less sugar. It’s still hurting and a lot of bad feelings with the growers here. Especially since other commodities have gone up in price and beets are so expensive to grow. And everything has gotten much more expensive this year
bjrogg:
Thanks Buckskinner. I was hoping it would bring a little more, but just happy it brought as much as it did. I’ve donated stuff before that only brought a few bucks. Like I said. Most people don’t realize how much goes into one.
I’m glad we got the window to get stuff planted here. A lot of seeds went in the ground last week. A few guys planting again today.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We sprayed the rye cover crop to terminate it. It had done its job and now we need to prepare for planting our edible beans.
I have been spreading fertilizer the last two days and almost done now.
Kinda short handed again. My brother has a doctors appointment today and my nephew had a really high temperature yesterday morning. I haven’t heard back from him yet today. I hope he gets feeling better soon.
We had a light white frost yesterday morning but I don’t think it hurt anything we had growing. Turned chilly and cloudy with little sprinkles here and there. I’m hoping to finish spreading fertilizer this morning and then switch planter over to beans. I still need to plant about 75 acres of soybeans on sugar beet fields headlands and wedge rows. It’s another thing that takes a little extra time now but saves so much time when we are harvesting sugar beets. Digging headlands and wedge rows is very time consuming and when we have a full crew of truck drivers and harvesters we like to get stuff done and not have everyone watching me dig headlands.
I took another picture of one of the windmills on our farm for WB. If you look close you can see their service truck parked by it. Kinda gives it a little idea how big they are.
Bjrogg
WhistlingBadger:
--- Quote from: bjrogg on May 19, 2022, 07:56:22 am ---We sprayed the rye cover crop to terminate it. It had done its job and now we need to prepare for planting our edible beans.
I have been spreading fertilizer the last two days and almost done now.
Kinda short handed again. My brother has a doctors appointment today and my nephew had a really high temperature yesterday morning. I haven’t heard back from him yet today. I hope he gets feeling better soon.
We had a light white frost yesterday morning but I don’t think it hurt anything we had growing. Turned chilly and cloudy with little sprinkles here and there. I’m hoping to finish spreading fertilizer this morning and then switch planter over to beans. I still need to plant about 75 acres of soybeans on sugar beet fields headlands and wedge rows. It’s another thing that takes a little extra time now but saves so much time when we are harvesting sugar beets. Digging headlands and wedge rows is very time consuming and when we have a full crew of truck drivers and harvesters we like to get stuff done and not have everyone watching me dig headlands.
I took another picture of one of the windmills on our farm for WB. If you look close you can see their service truck parked by it. Kinda gives it a little idea how big they are.
Bjrogg
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Wow, those things are BIG! There are a lot of them down in southern Wyoming, but I've always just seen them from a distance.
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