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chamookman:
Glad to see some progress! Looks like after this Morning, no rain til Sunday. Prayin' for Ya ! Bob
bjrogg:
Thanks Bob. We are fortunate that we haven’t had heavy rain. They were forecasting 1 1/2” and then another two days of .5”.
We had .6” and then just like before light persistent drizzle.
Today I went to the eye doctor and they dilated my eyes. It’s still cloudy but it’s much brighter.lol
Really hoping to get these pintos before there’s nothing left to get.
The beans still look good, but the straw is deteriorating very badly and pods are falling off yet. We are definitely going to have huge harvest losses even if we could get them today and they have to dry down yet. Even with my eyes dilated I can see that it’s not going to be today yet. Still talking little drizzle showers possible. Hopefully more sunshine though.
Getting really tired of this view.
Bjrogg
Russ:
Praying for good weather for ya Bj! Hope things run smoothly!
bjrogg:
Thank You Russell.
The sun shined the past day and a half pretty decent. I was hoping the pinto beans would get dry enough but they were still just a little bit too wet. We have been having lows in the 40’s and very heavy dews.
The sun is shining this morning. We still had a very heavy dew but I’m hoping the beans will get dry today. They aren’t as wet as they have been the past few mornings. Still pretty wet though.
Hopefully I can post some more pictures of pinto bean harvest soon.
Our early dig sugar beets did amazing. Dug September 10. Approximately a month and ten days before beginning of permanent piles. They cleaned up at 31 tons per acre and the sugar content was 15.74%.
Those are pretty impressive numbers. Hopefully the sugar continues to climb. Would like to see a company average in the 19 % area for permanent piles. If we are going to have to dispose of beets we don’t have the capacity to process before they spoil. I certainly hope the tons we get processed at least have a good sugar content
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We have been getting some stuff done.
We are trying a different type of cover crop in our wheat stubble this year. We seeded a mixer of rye and radish. The radish are a special variety that acts as a trap host for sugar beet cyst nematodes. They will die with a hard freeze. The rye will grow through the winter and be there in the spring. We will probably do one tillage pass and plant sugar beets into it next spring. Then after the beet crop emerges and it gives enough wind protection it will be terminated.
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