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bjrogg:

--- Quote from: GlisGlis on June 19, 2022, 07:14:42 am ---ty Bj
I recently read that during middle age the wheat harvest was less then 1.5 times what they sowed on average
Surely agricolture has made giant leaps

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We plant between 1.5 bu. Per acre and up to 3 if it gets really late into end of October or beginning of November. We personally very rarely plant that late.

We shoot for 130 bu. Per acre harvest. And if we get below 110 we are a little disappointed. So I would say your right in your assessment GlisGlis. We are in a good climate for winter wheat though.

Also with harvest, storage and quality.

We had a really nice shower this morning. Catching up in the office. Our crops are really going to like this shower.

Played with the new puppy Roxy yesterday. Looks like a stuffed animal, but it’s not. Funny they had a qualification list. Small, short haired and female. I guess they got two out of three.

I’m a little jealous. She’s got a better beard than me.

Bjrogg

chamookman:
Cute Pup ! Bob

GlisGlis:

--- Quote ---We plant between 1.5 bu. Per acre and up to 3 if it gets really late into end of October or beginning of November. We personally very rarely plant that late.

We shoot for 130 bu. Per acre harvest. And if we get below 110 we are a little disappointed. So I would say your right in your assessment GlisGlis. We are in a good climate for winter wheat though.
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I had to check how much is a bushel. For metric people imperial units are quite a nightmare  ;D
To tell the full truth in agricolture and forestal activities we also have non decimal units

Nice pup. She does not look very primitive  )P(   (lol)

bjrogg:
Thanks Bob.

Roxy spent her first night in her apartment last night. Hopefully everything went well.

GlisGlis we actually try to plant to a certain “population “

We weigh one pound of seed and count how many seeds are in that pound. So smaller seed we plant less pounds than larger seed. Early in the planting season we try for about 1.2 million seeds per acre.

Generally that’s about 120lbs per acre planted. That would be two bushels

If we harvest 130 bu. X 60 lbs a bushel = 7,800 lbs harvested per acre.

I think if I did my math right that’s about 65 times more than what we planted.

Of course Mother Nature has her say in the mater to.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
Finished up putting the nitrogen on the corn and sprayed the post emergence herbicides on the beans.

The little shower we had Monday was much appreciated. We have been a little on the dry side. We haven’t had much rain, but what we have had has come really slow and every drop soaked in.

We are starting to get caught up in the fields. Still have a lot of stuff to do in the shop to get ready for wheat harvest.

My cousin is arriving tonight. We grew up inseparable. He’s been living in California for close to forty years now. He comes back to visit every summer and I try my best to make some time in my busy schedule for spending with him. Somebody has to keep him out of trouble.

He’s kinda responsible in a roundabout way for me being addicted to all this primitive stuff.

I decided to pay him back a few years ago by making him this HHB Selfbow. I named it “Deep Roots”.
I know he has them. As he told me the other night. Time to come home and reboot my soul.

I think it’s time to shoot his bow again to.

Bjrogg

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