Plant 21

[Old Cowzilla]

+ 10 this morn warmest for the year so far dreamed of scratching the ground last night looking for little blue seeds. Only adjusted the drill about ten times before dark settled for 3/4 inch some in moisture some not any deeper and they never seem to come up. How come when it comes up it is way more seeds than when you are digging for it???????? Pasture still looks pretty rough lots of time to fix fences before grass is high enough. Have not seen any goslings yet on the dugouts but fox pups over half grown.

[burnt]

Planted corn on Thursday, had a light frost that night. It has gradually warmed up every day since then, reaching into the 20s.

Dug a seed up yesterday and it had developed a 1" sprout and a root.

[agstar77]

Planting beans and waiting for weekend rain. Canola going in also,

[sumdumguy]

Every hand is on deck. Shades of 1981 screenplay is only channel we are watching in our spare time. Canola going in 1 1/2 deep in lentil stubbles. Seed is not in moisture so praying and rain dancing continues. It’ll come - any day now. We are picking asparagus - perrennials, raspberries, strawberries are showing, fruit trees are blooming and I think I smell rain in the 30 km. east wind - maybe snow. We just stuck our heads out after yesterday’s hurricane at 30 degrees. Here’s hoping the turn around is right around the corner.👍

[furrowtickler]

done canola last night, just corn and soybean plots left
they can wait till after the 70 k winds today.
nervous like a lot here about next three mornings. A lot of canola has emerged the past few days in this area. seems like the good emergence will get roughed up and a lot in dry dirt now. will not be much inbetween . hopefully get a thunderstorm later today.

some NW of here have virtually all the crop up, a hard frost will not be good.

[makar]

Waiting for the last field of gumbo and muskeg to dry up, drill pulling up slabs and its raining.

[seldomseen]

Waiting for the last field of gumbo and muskeg to dry up, drill pulling up slabs and its raining.

Isn’t farming gumbo so much fun?
Won’t have it any other way! 😎

[makar]

Isn’t farming gumbo so much fun?
Won’t have it any other way! 😎

Number one son learned the joy of cleaning gumbo out of a coil packer.

[Sodbuster]

Finished seeding today, will put some corn in tomorrow for the bil's cows. Hardly any pot holes to go around this year, hope this is not a sign on how much moisture we get this year.

[woodland]

Yesterday afternoon. Having to put the corn in over two inches to hit poor moisture. The clay lumps were plugging the closer wheels which was really irritating. It was the first day that we hit our stride with the planter and air drill both going. Between breakdowns and cows they consumed the first half of May.


Today. An inch and still coming down. Supposed to switch to snow until sometime tomorrow. Now just to keep the newborns alive and the cow chow flowing till the sky’s clear tomorrow hopefully. The hills are coming to life out here finally. Definitely not complaining as it’s the biggest rainfall since July of last year. Just wish we had more kernels in the ground.......... Who am I kidding we always work best under pressure and behind the eight ball. I wouldn’t know what to do if we were ahead of schedule 😉

Good luck everyone on your moisture situation.🍀