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bjrogg:
Drizzle on the windshield
bjrogg:
A black bean plant I pulled. It’s one of the greener ones. I think my timing applying the protectants was really good. The straw looks really healthy and so far no white mold. I think my first application for my pintos was a little too late. I got started almost on time but got rained out before I got half done. Couldn’t get in field for three very critical days. Once the white mold is started it’s extremely difficult to control and impossible to kill. Unless Mother Nature decides to give it a dose of hot dry weather. Which we didn’t get this year.
Really nice healthy looking black bean plant.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Last week the weather forecast for this week was very hot and dry all week long. Just exactly what we were needing.
This week came and it completely ignored the weather forecast. We had a couple days of clouds and drizzle then a few days of very humid hot weather. And now when the humidity is supposed to have dropped it has rained and is still raining for three days now. Exactly what we didn’t need.
This rain is really going to hurt. I’m not sure the pinto beans will even be worth harvesting by the time they get dry enough if they get dry enough.
We are going to have black beans ready before we get the pinto bean if we don’t get good drying weather and more than two hours of it.
The workload just keeps getting heavier and more complicated.
Our perfect year is starting to crumble. This is when it gets really hard to be a farmer. We’ve been here before and we have come to expect it, but that doesn’t make it any easier.
We do our best to avoid it and if it comes then we do our best to deal with it.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Partly cloudy today. Not drying great but at least it isn’t raining and we didn’t get heavy rain.
The beans color still looks good but they took on plenty of moisture that will have to naturally dry before we can harvest them.
I’m hoping tomorrow we might be able to. Monday doesn’t sound like a good combine day and Tuesday is saying heavy rain.
Sunday is going to be a busy day if we can. I have to dig early dig sugar beets too. We will be trying to get enough help for two crews. I’m really hoping everything goes smoothly and we can get the pinto beans before the heavy rains.
Also hope the new (to us) beet digger works good. I don’t like working sundays anymore than anyone else, but it’s better if everything goes good.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Still no weather for harvesting pinto beans.
Was light drizzle again with lots of clouds. It actually really felt like beet digging weather and that’s what we did. We dug 34 acres of early digs. These beet go directly to the factories. They will be picked up tomorrow. And made into sugar shortly after that.
We put them on a pile by the road and then they use a Maus to clean and load them on big trucks parked on the road.
Hopefully it doesn’t rain to much because it really makes a mess when they do it in the rain.
Bjrogg
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