Got Done Harvest!!!

[farmaholic]

Finished today mid afternoon. Kids and my sister's kids want a bonfire, sleep in tomorrow(I really don't sleep late, but knowing I'm done I may be able to sneak in an extra hour or two of "restful sleep". ThanksGiving supper tomorrow and the Rider game. Feels good to be done. Lots of work to do yet, cleaning and servicing equipment, bunching flax straw, juggling a bit of grain, but the harvest urgency is over. Maybe even get the mobile pea cleaner in later this fall yet.

For those left harvesting, I hope you get the crop in and dry, take care and be safe.

[seabass]

Good to hear. We finished our beans tonite as well so 2014 harvest is a wrap. Been a long drawn out affair but feels good to have the pressure off now. Happy Thanksgiving all and finish up safely!

[fjlip]

Just a few fields left around our area, all is dry again. Ya, just try and sleep after a month of waking... need no alarm for a while.

[SASKFARMER3]

Looks like early harvest lights everywhere! We have just about 30% left to go.

[sumdumguy]

We also finished Sunday at 2:30. It's been a grind for us and everyone around here, but its amazing how nice it treashed yesterday.

The last two fields of Durum were fields that were burned black this spring for seeding otherwise we would not have got them seeded. Unlike the other 5 quarters that are grading a #5 with 4% Fus, these two fields will grade a #2, no Fus.
Its in the straw, not in the wind. Researchers who advocate direct seeding, did they ever think about harbouring disease?

[SASKFARMER3]

It is in the straw because fields worked black or burned are yielding way better. Did a quarter of later HRS and grading a #2 no Fuz. Its in the ground.

[agchat]

Well now, all those old farts ten to fifteen years ago that said the soil needed to be worked to control diseases and keep certain weeds from chemical resistance, and we called them stupid. I guess I am eating crow now.

[bucket]

Seems to me I read somewhere that when the Buffalo roamed the dirt was like summer fallow when they were done and there was the odd lightning strike causing a prairie fire.

Who would have thunk it.

[furrowtickler]

And the biggest con job was the carbon credit thing to top off zero till - in some cases you were penilized for working the soil - every one in ag from every angle had a hand in this.
We started to have issues 5-6 years ago and changed what we were doing. Full tillage every 3 - 4 years now.

[sumdumguy]

The Durum finished off properly too where it was burned black. Outyielded the other and nice sample. But, at seeding time, when we made our isolation strip and lit her up about 10 neighbour trucks came barreling over, mad as stuffed pigs. Guess they never saw the torches come out. It was fairly common nearer to Regina to see solid stubble fires throughout the years. After they saw us seeding, when they were plugged solid a few decided to try it. My grandparents used to add ash to the garden long ago to keep the onions and potatoes from rotting. There may be something there too.

[furrowtickler]

I believe there is much more to it as well. That thatch layer is a host of many bed things in wetter years.

[sumdumguy]

Funny thing to see all these new fall tillers being pulled every which way on the highway. What happened to no-till and the erosion story? I think it is all a theory sold to perpetuate the cheap food cycle. Produce more cheap food cause if you don't your soil will blow away. Doesn't matter that you need high clearance sprayers to spray the hell out of it. This and all the boola with carbon fuels causing global warming. Anyone remember 2/3 cropping? I don't know about you, but our bins were full.

As an aside: I bet Parsley doesn't have Fuz.