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Only thing dry today today is my bed. Got soaked while checking fence for moving the bulls onto another quarter and then got to play in the mud with my brother and didn’t get any drier.
This canola won’t die here. Started growing June 1 (first rain of the year) since it was seeded into powder from working the ground to get rid of the ruts from the last two years. Then the smoke of July and August delayed it a bunch. The continual snow and rain this month hasn’t helped either and we’re putting those ruts right back in now.
We both agreed to finish swathing the canola and then probably start on the wheat since it is feeling like 2016 where 2/3 of the crop stayed out. Spring 2017 anything swathed was garbage but ran through the combine like warm butter and made seeding easier. The flattened crop wouldn’t dry underneath and had to be disked or destroyed with the heavy harrows. The wheat is actually getting greener every day from all the late volunteer canola coming up as well.
I thought this year harvest would be quick and easy since it was so dry and only 2/3 of a normal crop. Now we don’t even have any grain on hand for wintering the cattle. We only got half the straw we should have and that’s carryover from last year. There’s still all the second cut out yet and it was planned on making dry bales for sale but now I’ll be happy if it dries up enough to make silage bales without destroying the fields.
I have written this crop off in my mind and now we’re trying to get things in place for making seeding 2019 easier since harvest will likely be overlapping it. My FIL is coming out to run our new to us wishek disk over some pasture and winterkilled hay fields. Better make sure it works like we think since it’ll be busy next spring most likely.
Fun times ahead for everyone in this area with only having the peas off. Going to be another long winter but at least we have plenty of silage.
This is just some rambling from someone who couldn’t really sleep tonight from the rain blowing against the windows. Good luck to everyone else since the only harvesting happening around here is what the four legged critters are doing. ðŸ€
P.S. I’m not grumpy or bitter about the whole situation. I just wish it didn’t consume so much time from my family and other projects to accomplish so little.
This canola won’t die here. Started growing June 1 (first rain of the year) since it was seeded into powder from working the ground to get rid of the ruts from the last two years. Then the smoke of July and August delayed it a bunch. The continual snow and rain this month hasn’t helped either and we’re putting those ruts right back in now.
We both agreed to finish swathing the canola and then probably start on the wheat since it is feeling like 2016 where 2/3 of the crop stayed out. Spring 2017 anything swathed was garbage but ran through the combine like warm butter and made seeding easier. The flattened crop wouldn’t dry underneath and had to be disked or destroyed with the heavy harrows. The wheat is actually getting greener every day from all the late volunteer canola coming up as well.
I thought this year harvest would be quick and easy since it was so dry and only 2/3 of a normal crop. Now we don’t even have any grain on hand for wintering the cattle. We only got half the straw we should have and that’s carryover from last year. There’s still all the second cut out yet and it was planned on making dry bales for sale but now I’ll be happy if it dries up enough to make silage bales without destroying the fields.
I have written this crop off in my mind and now we’re trying to get things in place for making seeding 2019 easier since harvest will likely be overlapping it. My FIL is coming out to run our new to us wishek disk over some pasture and winterkilled hay fields. Better make sure it works like we think since it’ll be busy next spring most likely.
Fun times ahead for everyone in this area with only having the peas off. Going to be another long winter but at least we have plenty of silage.
This is just some rambling from someone who couldn’t really sleep tonight from the rain blowing against the windows. Good luck to everyone else since the only harvesting happening around here is what the four legged critters are doing. ðŸ€
P.S. I’m not grumpy or bitter about the whole situation. I just wish it didn’t consume so much time from my family and other projects to accomplish so little.
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