Rain All Around

[Guest]

I did the discers thing but did have drill fills. Yup and that pink dust crap....
I'm really not that old am I?
Here's a good one, I remember fertilizer in bags. Can you imagine doing that with the amount we use and the acres we seed today. I was thinking that is why farms got so big, what took days to do on a quarter or half section years ago is measured in hours today.

But .... how in hell did it all get done ?

[Guest]

Yes remember goin to the wheat pool
Loading 50 lb bags by hand and then dumping them in the seed rite , a 13 foot

[jazz]

There is no humidity around. Its like Arizona around here. Hot in the daytime and gets cold right after sundown, almost freeze over night.

[farmaholic]

.........
I'm really not that old am I?
...........

At least I never saw any field work done with horses!
But we did have a cantankerous old nag that I hauled square bales to the cows with and hauled manure out of the barn to the field with using a stoneboat.

Yikes, I'm either older than I think or we were just real slow to adapt, lol.
Anyone want to challenge my deserved right to have new machinery.

[farmaholic]

There is no humidity around. Its like Arizona around here. Hot in the daytime and gets cold right after sundown, almost freeze over night.

There's a bit of standing water around the Ghetto but you could see them getting smaller the last couple of days.
Jazz, we might have to wait for the usual June monsoon season in the Regina area, and then the thundershower lottery after that. Yup, bury hundreds of thousands of dollars and "hope" for the best! Only the insane....lol.

[jazz]

Yup, bury hundreds of thousands of dollars and "hope" for the best! Only the insane....lol.

Yeah hoping for an earlier take on the canola. I seeded it a week earlier this year. Cant take another November harvest.

I told dad the real numbers of the fertilizer and the cost of the bags as they went into the drill. About 50 acres in I could see him shaking his head.

[rumrocks]

Had a neighbor who bragged he had windows before Bill Gates, referring to his tractor cab which was a game changer for all.

[furrowtickler]

Sad part is that’s possible where our kids may be ....
society want food security but expect it to come from peasants....

[furrowtickler]

They see this ...


But expect the same level of food security if we live like this ..



And like a few here get upset if we all are not the later. .....
is what it is now a days

[iceman]

They see this ...


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Is that Jazz in number 25? Hard to get a good look 4 miles back

Iceman out

[GALAXIE500]

We just gotta be thankful we are not filling discers with 5- gallon pails. That ugly memory of winds swirling grain and fertilizer dust in our faces and eyes while viciously trying to rip us off the gang plank. Those were the days my friend, so glad they did end. Just saying.

I still use a set of Massey 360's . Cheapest seeding tool on the farm. I don't fill them with pails however.

[canolacrazy]

how about a set of JD 9350's. the thing would plug even if it looked at a knot of straw. when we got a 4430 with a/c I thought i'd died and gone to heaven.