Rain All Around

[farmaholic]

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.

[fjlip]

Dad filled a 12' Press drill with grain scoop and fertilizer with bags pulled with 730 JD. Seeded 800 acres or so. Usually on 16 gallons of diesel per day, 5 cents a litre stuff. A few years later Neighbor did same with a 4020 open station and 16' press drill, 1500 acres by himself. That was work! In sun and wind and DIRT! Plus hearing loss. Don't despair, Dad still here at 97. We do SFA labor today, mostly head work.

[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]

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