Corn planter ???’s

[woodland]

S/B some kind of award for woodland.

First thread in some time with excitement about increasing production. Even makes beef seem interesting!

Hey who doesn’t get excited over a big thick juicy burger with all the fixin’s 🍔😋

Cow numbers are up 25% over last year so hopefully production goes up😎

Multiplication began the other night here with a 30 pounder three weeks early. All is well though.

[woodland]

S/B some kind of award for woodland.

First thread in some time with excitement about increasing production. Even makes beef seem interesting!

Hey who doesn’t get excited over a big thick juicy burger with all the fixin’s 🍔😋

Cow numbers are up 25% over last year so hopefully production goes up😎

Multiplication began the other night here with a 30 pounder three weeks early. All is well though.


Shtferbrains I think your handle is quite the misnomer 😉

[woodland]

We have decided to abort the corn planter this year and solid seed the grazing corn and sunnies (maybe) with the Pillar. That way we can also just do one pass.

Sunnies went about 1200 lbs an acre, harvested on Halloween. Gonna do 20 acres this year.

From that seeded field with brassicas into the corn. Some corn remained, but didn't make much corn.
https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1058064922351820800 https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1058064922351820800

The sunnies:
https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1057836111764975621 https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1057836111764975621

https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1057838713806319616 https://twitter.com/efarmerdot/status/1057838713806319616

Are your sunnies for birdseed or how did they turn out?

[farmaholic]

Doesn't have to be, have some fun with it.

I do! Another year another spin of the Roulette wheel.

What do you suggest?

[woodland]

I do! Another year another spin of the Roulette wheel.

What do you suggest?

Variety is the spice of life for us out in the hills and muskeg.

[samhill]

One year I didn’t want to move planter miles to a 4 acre patch, so planted(seeded) grain corn in 22 inch rows, with a ih 310 discer. Yielded pretty good for all I put into it. My corn head is 22 inch 8 row.

[wd9]

I do! Another year another spin of the Roulette wheel.

What do you suggest?

Well last year we started sunnies because my wife really liked them when she was oilseed specialist for MB. That was a lot of fun.

Tall stubble/strippers also has been very challenging and very rewarding in many ways.

What about flowers? People pay big money to have fresh cut flowers. UPicks for fruit trees or bush type. A corn maze. B and B with Farm tours, people also love that if close enough to cities. On farm research plots, work together with companies, they never say no if you can demonstrate good protocol and practice.
Figure out how to go herbicide free, in France they have a short forage under the crop that controls weeds like sod, figure out what would work in western Canada. Build a weeding robot. Make a self driving tractor.

[grassfarmer]

One year I didn’t want to move planter miles to a 4 acre patch, so planted(seeded) grain corn in 22 inch rows, with a ih 310 discer. Yielded pretty good for all I put into it. My corn head is 22 inch 8 row.

The best stand of corn we had was seeded with a neighbour's bourgault, random spacing in 7" rows. Hired a guy with a planter since then but the 30" rows leaves too much bare soil for my liking. Going to try 15" rows with the planter this year and if that doesn't work better I think I'd go back to the airseeder. Might be different with grain corn but for silage/grazing random seeding seems to work just fine.

[shtferbrains]

Multiplication began the other night here with a 30 pounder three weeks early. All is well though.

Did you get Woody Longarm to check for the brother?

I hate seeing dinky little ones come early.

Had triplets three weeks early once.

[woodland]

Multiplication began the other night here with a 30 pounder three weeks early. All is well though.

Did you get Woody Longarm to check for the brother?

I hate seeing dinky little ones come early.

Had triplets three weeks early once.

If they calve on their own and all looks good the calf gets a tag, selenium, AD+E, and that’s all. Our little black cows hardly know how to have twins (1-3%) let alone triplets (never) which is just fine with me.