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bjrogg:
It’s supposed to be turning warmer next week. We lost almost all of our snow yesterday and it froze good overnight. We decided to try and get as many acres of clover cover crop seed spread as we can today.
We have a gator and we can put our GPS on it. We also have a small spreader. Takes a lot of passes across the field but we can drive about 18 mph. With the gps we have a coverage map and acre counter. Also lines we drive by.
We are going to hit it pretty hard. Got up early and a few inches of fresh snow with more falling. We decided to keep going.
We do it like NASCAR one guy just drives. And another has bag open and dumps seed in.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
We did pretty good. Got 130 acres spread before the snow got warmer and started melting. That makes it drip water off the sides of spreader and it plugs the holes the seed comes out the bottom.
We had to quit and vacuum the seed back out of the spreader to clean the wet stuff on the bottom.
Sounds like it’s going to be to windy tomorrow. At least we got a start. About 25% done.
Bjrogg
M2A:
18 mph! that's getting at it!
Frost was all out of the ground here and yesterday it was 55 degrees, This morning we got about 5 inches of snow and its still coming down.
Mike
bjrogg:
It is Mike. When we first started doing this we drove about 8 mph. We had trouble with the holes the seed flows through plunging a lot. We realized if we opened up the holes more they wouldn’t plug up as easily and we drove faster to put the right amount on. We do a pretty good job spreading it now. We put about 8 lbs a acre. Like everything else it’s getting more expensive. Seed price has doubled.
We got together and ground, mixed, stuffed and smoked 370lbs of pork sausage. Tradition.
This stuff is yummy
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Everybody gets some
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