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bjrogg:
Feeling a lot better. Still sinus pressure and ear fluid but much better.

Saturday we moved everything for planting navy beans to my brothers place. It takes a lot of stuff. Tractor and field cultivator, sprayer, tender, fertilizer truck, tractor and planter, seed wagon, tractor and roller, and loader tractor.

It’s a 14 mile one way trip so it took most of the day just moving stuff, but it’s all there and ready now.

Saturday night went to my wife’s 40 year class reunion. Kinda small turn out. Probably past most of their bed times.lol

Sunday we got together with kids and grandkids for a nice campfire.

Monday and Tuesday we hit the planting navy beans hard. Monday I planted 162 acres. Tuesday I planted another 114 acres and moved everything back to Dad’s. My nephew put the pre emerge herbicides on the black bean ground. It was hot and dry and the weeds are really growing.

The soybeans I planted last week are coming up.

The beet fields really need to be sprayed. Can’t believe how fast these weeds are growing.

Today we got the sugar beets sprayed

Buckskinner:
Glad you're feeling better!

Yeah, weeds are a pita...  Not as common anymore, but I spent many of days on a cultivator as a kid trying not to wipe out the corn rows.

Is that volunteer corn to the sides of the picture?

bjrogg:
Yes I spent many many hours cultivating sugar beets, edible beans and corn. I spent  a lot of hours with a hoe in my hand to.

I think what you are seeing is rye cover crop and volunteer wheat. The sugar beets we don’t spray rye to kill before we plant. We just till field once leaving residue for wind protection. One of the really nice things about RR sugar beets. Before we had to spray several times while weeds were very small to kill them. Wind blew off sugar beets every year. It was very difficult to use cover crops. Even cultivating was difficult with cover crop residue. Made for more “iron worm” as we use to call it.

Definitely a case where new and old ways work well together
Bjrogg

bjrogg:
Started planting black beans yesterday. Got 112 acres planted. We have another 107 acres of our blacks to plant and then about 90 acres for my son. Should be able to finish them up in about two days if everything goes well.

My brother got his port for chemotherapy put in day before yesterday. He has appointment with chemotherapy doctor today. I hope everything goes well.

I took two pictures yesterday. One of the residue from rye cover crop incorporated into the soil. The second after planting. It’s a lot of residue and the planter has been designed to brush it in between the rows so it can still get good seed placement in the soil.

Bjrogg

Pappy:
Looking good BJ, our soybeans are up about 4 or 5 inches but could use some rain,was supposed to rain yesterday but none came, getting a little dry around here again. :)
 Pappy

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