When you can have a normal spring seeding program it sure brings you back to what life use to be like before the big flood years hit. We are at 60% done as of last night and what a run it has been so far.
Up and down and back and forth. Finally into out wetter ground and yes the further north of the valley you go the wetter it gets.
But what this thread is about is seeding and how fast a crop can actually get planted when a farmer has good seeding conditions.
We get in a good day around 600 plus acres a day in. A shitty day could be 240.
But in the flood years a good day was 320 and a poor was 40.
Basically not really going that hard from 6 to 9 at night it would take roughly 16 days of seeding to get the crop in.
32 if I was farming 20000 acres. But then the drills would be changed to deal with the extra acres. In the past we would have loved to pull 75 ft drills or bigger but guess what you couldn't either pull them, fill them right up or get them between the sloughs.
Ah dry land farming its so much more fun than wet land farming.
It also has lots to do with how a person manages their seeding crew. On our farm each drill has a tender truck with enough starter fertilizer for a whole day and seed. All our nitrogen is delivered to the field in the form of Anhydrous. Drills are filled the night before you head home. In morning one loads fert from in yard bins and one loads treated seed then switch places before heading to field. Fuel is delivered in morning by one of the farm help.
All tractors are equipped with toe cables and all have clevis and tow straps on board. Their is a spare pull tractor close by running a heavy harrow.
So yes if a eastern farm gets back to normal extra acres could be picked up because seeding in normal conditions is a dream compared to MUD!
What are others using or doing to plan for seeding and area they farm in.
Up and down and back and forth. Finally into out wetter ground and yes the further north of the valley you go the wetter it gets.
But what this thread is about is seeding and how fast a crop can actually get planted when a farmer has good seeding conditions.
We get in a good day around 600 plus acres a day in. A shitty day could be 240.
But in the flood years a good day was 320 and a poor was 40.
Basically not really going that hard from 6 to 9 at night it would take roughly 16 days of seeding to get the crop in.
32 if I was farming 20000 acres. But then the drills would be changed to deal with the extra acres. In the past we would have loved to pull 75 ft drills or bigger but guess what you couldn't either pull them, fill them right up or get them between the sloughs.
Ah dry land farming its so much more fun than wet land farming.
It also has lots to do with how a person manages their seeding crew. On our farm each drill has a tender truck with enough starter fertilizer for a whole day and seed. All our nitrogen is delivered to the field in the form of Anhydrous. Drills are filled the night before you head home. In morning one loads fert from in yard bins and one loads treated seed then switch places before heading to field. Fuel is delivered in morning by one of the farm help.
All tractors are equipped with toe cables and all have clevis and tow straps on board. Their is a spare pull tractor close by running a heavy harrow.
So yes if a eastern farm gets back to normal extra acres could be picked up because seeding in normal conditions is a dream compared to MUD!
What are others using or doing to plan for seeding and area they farm in.
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