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[agstar77]

Just curious on how you justify these machines with there individual adjustments and complex depth control. Do they really increase yields enough to justify their cost and do they work with 10 or 20 dollar canola?

[freewheat]

Agstar, that is exactly right. I have no idea if perfection at seeding translates into bushels in the fall. My yields I do know, are as good or better as neighbors with machines valued 20 times what mine is. However, I often wonder how much I am leaving on the table. Maybe I would be leaps and bounds ahead of them, I dunno?

I do know peace of mind at and after seeding for me, would be worth something to me. I would keep my tank, and just buy a toolbar to go with it. A 40 footer is not that bad at all, really.

Great question though, I wrestle with it every spring...My crops turn out ok every time. But this year, it seems less likely to be rainy. Which on the one hand is awesome. But on the other, my seeder needs some forgiveness.

[Hopperbin]

**** its dry just spent two hours drinking and pailin water to the garden.

[Hopperbin]

And spent two hours drinking and pailin water two days ago.

[Klause]

Drinking beer and watering the garden or drinking water and beering the garden?

[Hopperbin]

Drinking whiskey. Watering the garden. Ex wife not wet. Is that enough info

[Partners]

You can spend all the $$$ you want but if you seed to shallow on a dry yr.the germ is poor..This is the 3rd yr in a row our canola germ is better than the neighbors Chicken Hawk...Sure makes me feel Good..Him not so much...

[blackpowder]

First peas getting Odyssey for residual if/when rains.
Barley looks good, only touched by frost. One guys bly was fubar.
Wheat emergence good an roots in moisture but a25 bu crop if no rain in June.
Canola. What a mixed bag. Early seeded in area wiped out by frost or beetles if your emergence was good.
Later seeded fine unless a C shank drill and trash. Then poor densities.
If no adequate rain for June then not much to "price protect" at $497.
Feed will be dear if u need it. Cc pairs down a $1000. Pastures slim.

[cottonpicken]

Wxmaps has a flood coming on the two week map

[Klause]

Link us up there cp, I couldn't find a 14 day precipitation map...

[mcfarms]

wxmaps.org

[fjlip]

Hopper buy a garden HOSE or three, way less effort than pails! LOL!
Ya Free, my 17 year old $10,000 SS 5710 seeds just fine, $300,000 drill can do about the same, just less thinking required as you say...

[cottonpicken]

Haven't been able to figure how to link from phone

[cottonpicken]

They also have temp anomaly and soil moisture

[SASKFARMER3]

Cant find the link.
Where is the flood zone I hope not the same area as last 10. That's around farm progress show when it usually hits.