A few guys got rolling yesterday for the first time since Sept 4. I have nothing ready. Roundup working slow. Still have 50 acres of canola to cut, but I may have to leave it and hope to straight it. So wet. Guys are waiting more for fields to be firm enough, not so much for the grain to dry.
Today it is cloudy and misty. We have had showers every day for 4 days. Not much but enough to keep things damp. Soil is absolutely full and over full. water everywhere, slimy mud everywhere else. The forecast has never been more wrong. Cloudy and 14 today so far. was supposed to be a high of 26.
David Philips fault. He opened his big trap the other day stating we will be 10 degrees above normal for at least the next ten days, and that the fall will be very warm and pleasant.
Thanks Dave!
Anyway, I am stuck at 10% done. Area probably about 20% done.
Another thing guys are having trouble with is the cereals that simply won't mature well. Do you swath it, or spray and wait at this time of year? Swath green oats and trust there will be a week of warm and dry, or spray it and hope the glyph takes effect soon?
To be perfectly honest, I am very, very stressed. And riders, I am not asking for sympathy, just telling my agriville family the truth. I am at my limit. If this is grain farming, I am ready to keep on building fences and wean myself off. When you have barley at 130 days, and it is still half green, something is not right, and the fun is gone. Even if I could combine, I am so bloody exhausted from walking to the tractor countless miles through the mire by 9 AM, that I would not be able to stay up and go into the night anyway. Yesterday, I was driving home to get the 4WD tractor at about 8 PM. I realized I could hardly concentrate on the road. Exhausted, and sitting at ten per cent. Again, not looking for sympathy, just fed up, tired, and to be frank, ready to quit. I feel like I have had enough of this business, I really do. I am too darn young to feel like I do, and it scares me.
Today it is cloudy and misty. We have had showers every day for 4 days. Not much but enough to keep things damp. Soil is absolutely full and over full. water everywhere, slimy mud everywhere else. The forecast has never been more wrong. Cloudy and 14 today so far. was supposed to be a high of 26.
David Philips fault. He opened his big trap the other day stating we will be 10 degrees above normal for at least the next ten days, and that the fall will be very warm and pleasant.
Thanks Dave!
Anyway, I am stuck at 10% done. Area probably about 20% done.
Another thing guys are having trouble with is the cereals that simply won't mature well. Do you swath it, or spray and wait at this time of year? Swath green oats and trust there will be a week of warm and dry, or spray it and hope the glyph takes effect soon?
To be perfectly honest, I am very, very stressed. And riders, I am not asking for sympathy, just telling my agriville family the truth. I am at my limit. If this is grain farming, I am ready to keep on building fences and wean myself off. When you have barley at 130 days, and it is still half green, something is not right, and the fun is gone. Even if I could combine, I am so bloody exhausted from walking to the tractor countless miles through the mire by 9 AM, that I would not be able to stay up and go into the night anyway. Yesterday, I was driving home to get the 4WD tractor at about 8 PM. I realized I could hardly concentrate on the road. Exhausted, and sitting at ten per cent. Again, not looking for sympathy, just fed up, tired, and to be frank, ready to quit. I feel like I have had enough of this business, I really do. I am too darn young to feel like I do, and it scares me.
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