Today in Pictures

[LEP]

About a decade ago, I know a guy who runs multiple trucks and was known for heavy loads had a farm visit from the Highway Patrol. They asked what elevators he sold grain to and then made an official request to those elevators for the scale tickets for all his loads in the last month.

Then a week later they made another farm visit. It went this way. So though we have the right to go back as far as we want, we decided to stop counting when we got to $20,000. We could have gone much higher but I think we made our point.

On the way out the door tgey said, Oh by the way, we may stop by again. You never know.

True story

[shtferbrains]

Lead shank made of rawhide from the Argentine pampas.
Gaucho's hang the cowhide on the fence till it's rawhide dry and make various tack for their horse.
100% on site natural.

Was handy halter breaking our colt.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Here's a picture of our drought ravaged hay crops. Not even as tall as the baler.

Next is a picture of a volunteer canola that must have been in the fertilizer blender growing in my lowland hay that was seeded in early june. The hay has been mostly a failure since it didn't rain after seeding. But the volunteer canolas did exceptionally well. Someone would have promised me it would be this dry all season, I could have seated this to Canola early and had a fantastic crop. No pods on any of the volunteer canola plants. Between the moose and deer eating the flowers as fast as they grow, and maybe the lack of sulfur, the few flowers that made it didn't make any pods.
I should have seeded canola here and sold it as silage to my neighbor. Could have had a tremendous crop. I didn't want to miss the opportunity to get it seeded to Grass since it may be the only spring it's dry enough. Last time this ground was farmed was in the fifties. Then it started raining and was never farmed again.

[furrowtickler]

Canola swathing now that temps have cooled off somewhat

[agstar77]

Not for Rider fan use! 24 watermelon crop.

[furrowtickler]

A moose on the lose in the peas

[Blaithin]

Fire south of me this afternoon. Assuming a combine went up. It got into the hills and trees so it’s probably going to be a dink to get out.

[fjlip]

Wind is not your friend...

[seldomseen]

Getting the canola in rows.

[shtferbrains]

Saw this photo today on Twitter.
Might be some fair bit of this?

[shtferbrains]

Don't want to lose this Today's Picture's thread.

Coyotes must be turning the pups out to fend for themselves.

[shtferbrains]

Must be lots of harvest pics out there?

[cropgrower]

my faithful FORD TW 25 rolled the clock over this morning , brought that tractor over from ireland when i moved

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Following up on the earlier posts about jamming fuel valvea open.
Today I couldn't find the perfect Rock to jam in the fuel spout handle. There was a shortage of gravel on top of the combine. So went through my pockets until I found something that would work. My phone fit perfectly.
Then I decided I should take a picture to add to this thread. Hard to take a picture of your own phone.

[blackpowder]

But you could take a pic of the mess when the auto nozzle doesn't click off.......