Your betting your life on knowing power line height

[bgmb]

we ripped one down this spring we had permit to go under it and had been under it a week earlier. Hot day made the difference.

It don't think you as a farmer can throw up your arms and tell hydro and equip manufacturers to figure it out.

Farmers and hydro need to work together on this issue. Hydro has been good to us about raising low lines but it is a huge and expensive task ahead.

[Hopperbin]

For once I agree with klause. This year my yield monitor shows 50 in the drownd out slough and near 0 on the hilltop where all the crop is. Imagine making sense of a yield map around here. I dont agree with nitrogen leaching away around here either. My experience is if the crop did not use it its most likely still there. Shitty roots mean shitty crop. I actually had some of the best years on land that never produced. I mean was not farmed to potential before me. Well I usually say too much and klause will want clobber me.

[Hopperbin]

Perhaps the yield map will compensate for delay. I am really not there. One thing for sure is some day we will need to replenish more and more nutrients as we take them out. P n s etc are not the only nutrients being used.

[gustgd]

I don't know much about Mb, but I understand that they have more of a permit system and farmers understand the heights???

In Sk we are on our own. Can call anytime with 5 days notice and they will measure for you.

I guess what I would like is a posted height over the roads, much like on a bridge. Whatever it was built for. Then manufactures can put a sticker on the drill when folded and we all know how high
we are. Them it's on the owner

As lines are fixed over roads they can raise to a ridiculous height possibly 25'

Then no arcing.

What's your alternative.
Farmers can't run around with a 20ft stick to see if they're safe.

[farmaholic]

I've sarcastically said that variable rating is for people who have everything else already...... ;-)

[Klause]

I would say bgmb hit the nail on the head.... prescription based seeding works if you know your land and are the one doing the prescriptions. I'd you hire someone like agri trend they look at a yield map and go off of that feed it into a computer program and generate a fert map.


Having said that our air drill is setup with rawson drives and a trimble FmX for variable rate.



Getting back on topic...

What will you cut first to save money? Snake oil type inputs? "Services" like agritrend/farmlink/etc?

[Hopperbin]

Dont have any snakeoil dealings so pretty hard to cut those.

[Rareearth]

Bourgault cultivator 20 feet 6 inches tall, combines with toppers about 16 feet 6 inches?

[ado089]

Most cases you've already lost if youre using a yield map or satellite for VR. The here keys to Vr are water, water and water.

Back to the op...I cut out the expensive $75/ac canola in lieu of the cheapest ($35) stuff I could find. so far the cheap CL and RR are yielding the best. Only fungicide what needs it (disease triangle) and spoon fed fert as needed. My canola COP was down close to $50/ac this year and I'm not goving up anything compared to the neighbors yield wise.

[Braveheart]

The thing to know about MB Hydro is that nothing is EVER their fault.

We had them have some lines cross due to nasty weather. Blew up our 2-way, computer, appliances, wall outlets, but not their responsibility.

Now, they have gone to a local dealer and told him to not sell any more aeration fans without informing them. The dealer, a hard hitting Mennonite, told them where to go.