This past week.....

[Animal]

Well, how did this daylight savings time and this unbelievable weather work for you this past week? I am worn to a frazzel, but I am on the right side of caught up. If something drastic does not happen I will be cutting clover in April. This winter has just been amazing!

 

[cydectin]

You have to love this weather even when we know it is not right, but then again what is right for MO. I have looked at our local weather averages and if a person went by that alone they would think it's a great place to live. It is a great place to live but our averages are made up of nothing but extremes. I'm pretty well caught up on fence row cleaning and having the equipment ready to go. Just waiting for the calendar to say go on the planting. I do not want the wait for planting to go to fast as time seems to go by to fast anyway. I am keeping my rear puckered a little as this warm weather has everything growing and blooming and I would hate to see it all get nipped. Our clover is no where near needing to be cut here. Good luck and hope you have a happy, healthy, and prosperous year.

 

[oj]

Up here in the "Great White North" it's not even white anymore, most of the snow is gone except for the ditches and wooded ground (north facing), winter wheat is coming out of dormancy and the geese are back already (do they know something i don't?). I'm still expecting some more winter, last year we had 2 ft of snow on May 1st. Don't generally start seeding until the first week of May, but this year who knows...

Started calving last week, cows are still on pasture and not in the yards, seems silly to bring them in when it's 50 odd F out during the day, so there will be less manure to haul this year!

Ground is still frozen a few inchs down, so i can't go fencing yet, but still lots to do. GF likes the longer evenings now the clocks have changed, gives her more time to play with the horses, so if she's happy, i'm happy, as we all know how that works

 

[Brendon-KS]

Couple guys were talking at church this morning about the weather and are hoping that we don't have a repeat of 2007. That year it got warm really early and the wheat started growing just like it is here right now. The problem was the two consecutive nights of 17 degrees around Easter time that pretty much killed it all off. Needless to say there wasn't much wheat harvested in our area that year.

 

[Animal]

I remember that, it was around if not easter,and ruined the best field of alfalfa I ever had. Trust me the thought of a repeat has crossed my mind a jillion times. My clover that I seeded in Feb. is coming like crazy...I not only have my fingers crossed, but my legs too!

 

[cydectin]

I remember that April as well. Weather man stated after April was over that year we had record setting highs the first two weeks and record setting lows the last two. We had alfalfa that was knee high and it froze it to the crown. Really hurt the orchard grass and it didn't amount to a hoot that year. Real dry the rest of that year.

 

[paul]

I got oats and rye sprouting up her in MN. The average low today is 25, the record low is minus 8. Our low should be in the 60's somewhere. Oh, I planted the rye last Sept, it was so dry it didn't sprout, first rain we got was 1/3 inch in middle of December, and now over an inch about 2 weeks ago. That's it for the past 8 months. And the oats is what blew over the combine, likewise, it didn't sprout last fall, too dry.

Very dry here, supposed to get a 1/2 inch tomorrow. Typically 1/4 of my farm is under water this time of year, as the snow melts, the co ditch overflows. Would be 8 feet of water in the ditch. This year, think it got up to 18 inches, fell down to less than a foot now. Dry, very dry.

Getting some errands done, about 4 weeks until normal corn planting, and often the weather dictates later than that....

Looked over the chisel plow today, might work up some headlands tomorrow, fould one of the wheel barings was powder dry, so 2 new bearings in the morning, should be good to go.

It's almost too warm to sleep tonite, wife was saying to would be too stupid to get the fan out....

--->Paul

 

[Erik Ks farmer]

Been clearing hedge and cedars in the pastures, top dressed the wheat and new openers and scrapers on the planter. Starter fert is on the corn ground, half the anhydrous is on, still too wet around here to work ground, and rain in the forecast the rest of the week, but I will take it. I remember 2007, had a great wheat crop that froze, went from 60bpa prospects to an actual of 25bpa.

 

[Animal]

Do you think that if we had mowed that alf alfa the day before that freeze that we could have saved it?

 

[cydectin]

Might have helped it, I really don't know.

 

[cydectin]

Might have helped it, I really don't know.

 

[Animal]

Eric, What is the purpose of anhydrous? I know it was used in WW2 to tighten up the air fields, other than that what does it do for your corn. Also what exactly is Urea? Is it a form of N and does it come as a liquid or a pellet?

 

[Erik Ks farmer]

anhydrous ammonia, nitrogen, this year it has been more cost effective to purchase. It is 82% meaning that for every ton put on there are 1640 units of nitrogen applied. I put 115 units on, and put 30 units of 46% Urea along with my P, K, and some sulfur per acre. The urea I use is a dry granular as is the rest of the starter mix. Curious, how do you fertilize your wheat? I just put on 80 units of liquid N along with harmony (a herbicide) and quilt (fungicide) for top dress. Put on starter last fall similar to corn starter.

 

[Animal]

I am hoping that this clover that is growing like crazy that I seeded into it will put the nitrogen to it....