Egon
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You done good!
What type of shovels on the cultivator?
What type of shovels on the cultivator?
Pasture renovation project...
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dixiedrifter
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Just a few pics to show how it looks... got my wheat planted, fertilized, and the ground limed.
These pics are a few weeks old, the wheat looks pretty thin IMO, but it has really greened up since then and the wheat is tillering out quite nicely.
The grain drill was definatly the ticket... although I think it was not quite putting the seed out at the rate that I wanted.
This pic was taken in the same spot as the first photo above.
These pics were taken in the second field, just on the opposite end:
These pics are a few weeks old, the wheat looks pretty thin IMO, but it has really greened up since then and the wheat is tillering out quite nicely.
The grain drill was definatly the ticket... although I think it was not quite putting the seed out at the rate that I wanted.
This pic was taken in the same spot as the first photo above.
These pics were taken in the second field, just on the opposite end:
bigbull338
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you can tell you put alot into diskinf an leveling those fields up.your wheat looks like its growing good as well.insted of combining the wheat an baling the straw in june.why not bale the wheat for hay at the end of april or 1st of may.
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I figure wheat will probably be running $6 or so a bushel in the spring... if it makes 30bu per acre thats $180 gross plus another $100 or so for the straw.
The other problem with cutting early is rain... usually it is raining like crazy during that time of the year here in TN... it wouldn't dry out in time.
The other problem with cutting early is rain... usually it is raining like crazy during that time of the year here in TN... it wouldn't dry out in time.
EddieWalker
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Looks really nice. Are you seeing any deer out there eating your wheat?
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dixiedrifter
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Well its lookin more and more like wheat, and yeah, the deer have been working on it. Got a couple nice young bucks running around that I usually see late of an evening... one 4 and one 6 pointer and a bunch of does.
So far its been a rather crappy year. 6+ inches of rain ahead of schedule... think part of my fertilizer I applied a couple weeks ago washed away.
I think the stand could be about 10-15% thicker and it would be perfect.
Good news is that wheat futures are up, past the $10 mark. Will be interesting to see prices after all the flooding in the midwest.
So far its been a rather crappy year. 6+ inches of rain ahead of schedule... think part of my fertilizer I applied a couple weeks ago washed away.
I think the stand could be about 10-15% thicker and it would be perfect.
Good news is that wheat futures are up, past the $10 mark. Will be interesting to see prices after all the flooding in the midwest.
Egon
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Excellent job. Nothing as pleasing as seeing your crop come up!
Now to get a proper type cultivator that is built for your tractor so you do not bend it up! And some different shovels for it for different jobs!
Nothing as pleasing as seeing your crop come up! Now to get a proper type cultivator that is built for your tractor so you do not bend it up!
And some different shovels for it for different jobs!
