Harvest management..

[furrowtickler]

Standing 22.5
Swathed 17.2
Gettin er in the bin ...

[SASKFARMER]

It rained yesterday so peas back to soft and chewy.

I Finished Farm management plus on my HRS.

Barley will get swath after a tomorrows rain event.

Canola a week away and all hell will break out.

Told my crew get ready to combine in 14 days.

[zeefarmer]

How long since you swathed? I’m starting to have the feeling that our wheat may meet the same fate given the forecast.

[SASKFARMER]

I did a half-section last year for seed, the first time in years. We had to aerate for about two weeks.

Wheat is dead I'm going after weeds.

But the Eco Nazis don't see it that way.

[Horse]

So those of us that dont agree with harvest managment (aka greedy bastards that cant get er all done without cheating on the gly) are neo natzi ? What ever that is,please explain.

[Sheepwheat]

Had some folks over last night for an evening outdoor meal. They are non farmers, but raised on farms back in the day. Had very interesting conversations about today’s farming, including sprayer tracks all year long in almost every crop. Observant they are. They are not greenies in any way, it still had hard questions as consumers about how this can possibly all be healthy. They are hard questions to answer for us farmers sometimes.

It was a grand engagement. But it is getting harder and harder to back ourselves up on our practices and the sprayer now being the most important tool on most farms nowadays. Love those in depth conversations with consumers. When they genuinely ask fair and probing questions.

Trouble is I am running out of satisfactory answers.

[furrowtickler]

From that swath
#1 hrsw
13.5 pro
16.5 average moisture
No fusarium, no ergot
No fungicide
No round up
Averaging about 12 bus / inch of summer rain . A bit better than the peas .

[jazz]

glyphosate is cheating? Well thats a new one.

The use of chemicals is a necessary evil for several reasons. Basically boild down to the need to feed more people on the planet whic nobody wants to deal with, all while not having an proportionate number of people providing that food because of economics, inflation, marketing and support. Thats why we have 7 or 8 people trying to run 20,000 ac farms instead of 70 or 80 families running 1,000 acre farms.

So the forgotten industry does what it has to do. Glyphosate is just a symptom of poor policy decisions.

[blackpowder]

Had some folks over last night for an evening outdoor meal. They are non farmers, but raised on farms back in the day. Had very interesting conversations about today’s farming, including sprayer tracks all year long in almost every crop. Observant they are. They are not greenies in any way, it still had hard questions as consumers about how this can possibly all be healthy. They are hard questions to answer for us farmers sometimes.

It was a grand engagement. But it is getting harder and harder to back ourselves up on our practices and the sprayer now being the most important tool on most farms nowadays. Love those in depth conversations with consumers. When they genuinely ask fair and probing questions.

Trouble is I am running out of satisfactory answers.

Good point.
My answers are:
We are using less active grams per acre.
Less harmful products.
And 1/3 the diesel we used to.

But I hear you.

I've had older farmers argue the same thing. "Too much 'chemicals'"
As they're hacking away from 60 years of exhaust lol.

[Sheepwheat]

Furrow.i am looking forward to my 160 bushel wheat! Can’t wait to get into it. Lol