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chamookman:
Thanks BJ - What view, WOW ! (=) Bob.
bjrogg:
Not many of those sunny days this season so far and lots of wind and drizzle. Either it’s been too windy and raining or the rare times it isn’t I have work that needs to be done.
We still haven’t gotten a chance to get our soybeans off yet. They never got dry enough. They are ripe now so hopefully we get a couple sunny days in a row so we can get them.
Michigan Sugar announced that permanent piles will start 10-18-23. We still have soybeans on our headlands yet. We do have one beet field that doesn’t have soybeans on its headlands. If it isn’t too wet we might try to finish it. I would really like to see the sugar content go up a little yet though. I’m not really excited about harvesting them yet.
I was over to my brothers house this weekend and he showed me his Muddy Bull Box Blind. Gotta admit I wish I had something like it now. I think I could shoot pretty comfortably from it. He loves it. Has taken a lot of deer from it with his compound. I think by next year I’m going to have some kinda blind I can shoot my selfbow from. Most of the time I get to hunt it’s not very nice sitting in a tree.
I did have a doe given to me. Vacuum packed the back straps. Canned eight jars and making a batch of jerky.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Last night I sat in my most comfortable stand.
It wasn’t raining and the wind was right.
It was still a bit on the windy side, but much better than it has been. The deer were still nervous and didn’t seem comfortable with the wind. I did see several though. Didn’t get busted and even passed on a shot at a really small four point. Might regret that later, but it seemed like the right thing at the time. Didn’t have much time to think about it as he walked down the trail right by me.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
7:00 am this morning the piling grounds opened for permanent piles. These piles will be used to store our sugar beets until they can be processed. We probe the beets temperature. When it gets above 52 degrees F. we stop piling until the beets cool again. It’s a real crap shoot. We can’t pile frozen beets either so our window is kinda narrow. Today they closed at 2:30 pm.
We didn’t dig beets today. I helped my son with filling his bunker silo with corn silage. I used a big four wheel drive tractor with a blade to push the silage up on a pile and pack it to get the air out of it.
The chopper cuts the whole plant into tiny pieces and blows the out it’s “gooseneck “ to the truck. Usually the truck drives along side, but when you start the field it has to drive behind.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We finished chopping, but then we had to move the edge of the pile and put it on top. You can’t make the edge straight up and down while you are making it. We use a telescopic loader to scoop up the edge.
We need this area later for high moisture shelled corn.
My brother and nephew got the soybeans off our sugar beet fields.
We did good. We are in a lot better shape now than yesterday. It’s supposed to rain the next three days.
Bjrogg
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