Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[ado089]

I hate to say knowing that there are some with poor crops out there but I have the best crops I've ever grown so far. Mustard has been flowering for two weeks and is almost too bright to look at. Thick and waist high. Lentils are flowering and just covered the ground. Peas are over my knees and for the most part you can't see ground from the cab of the sprayer. Over 10 pods/flowers/buds per plant, and the early pods have 6-7 peas. Barley is just heading out, thick and filling 28 kernels per head. Organic crop up north looks great because it's later but dad's conventional crops around it are starting to burn up. Things look great but there isn't an abundance of moisture and a good soaker would be welcome, if not needed over the next week. Not buying a new combine just yet.

[grassfarmer]

I'm not much of a crop farmer but pretty impressed with these neighbours crops. Small operator working with a little 2wd tractor, harrows, an old box drill and a trailed fertiliser spreader. Seeded the crops in the driest, windiest days of May I thought he was losing a crazy amount of moisture. Don't look half bad to me.



And a picture of my own. Seeded out a pasture mix last spring and threw in 0.7 lb/acre of sweet clover, just a ridiculous crop, need to silage it as we can't even see the fence posts never mind the hot wires and its way beyond grazing.