Little crop tour : lots of pics

[DaleK]

Took these yesterday. Most of the crops look good, a little moisture stress but some heat will straighten them out. It was raining again when I took some of them, raining again this morning.



First corn we planted this spring. Knew this rented field drains poorly so we went ahead and planted it early even though we got over an inch of rain while I was in the field, it's looking pretty good now.





Soft red winter wheat. Couple small areas of wild brome in this field, otherwise it's doing pretty well too.



More wheat, closer to home.



Corn right beside the barns



Looking down the road at a 100 acre wheat field, my parents house is just to the right at the edge of the field.

[DaleK]

Alfalfa field that was cut and baled 10 days ago, coming back now. The light coloured areas are shallow ground, most of this field only has about 3 feet of topsoil over bedrock but the lighter areas are 12-18".







Soybeans on a 90 acre rented farm. Uneven emergence from the moisture but coming along nicely. This farm was tile drained but when we first rented it 5 years ago no one knew where the outlets were, every year it got wetter, finally this year we found a former neighbour who remembered where they put the outlets. Drains go across a farm next door, through the barn yard, and come out at the road over half a mile away. When we dug down and unplugged the ends, they exploded like three fire hoses and ran like that for 2 days steady.




Bees that are kept on us. The line running away from the camera to the right is his electric fence, three strands, for black bears. This yard has been wrecked three times in 4 years, once since he put the fence up. That time the bear couldn't get back out after getting in and he had to shoot it when he got there.




Still got 15 acres of hay out, may get it baled someday.

[Tricky Grama]

Great pictures! Bet it's not 98 degrees there...

Patty

[whiterabbit454]

what a spread you have nice pics!

[hintonlady]

Dale, I'm in love with your trees, it is gorgeous there. We have some but not nearly enough for my liking. *sniff sniff*

Now be a good boy and go straighten out your lumber pile.

[Up North]

Dale - "You are the wind beneath my Wings"

[Nana2boys]

What beautiful land. It reminds me a lot of east texas.

[stanb999]

Originally Posted by DaleK

The light colored areas are shallow ground, most of this field only has about 3 feet of topsoil over bedrock but the lighter areas are 12-18".

Hey, wait a min..... 12-18" of soil is shallow??? Here we are lucky to get 6" for hayfield. Here shallow is when you see the rock.

Nice picks. Is that sand in the photo with the Soybeans? Here if their is too much sand it just dries and blows away.

[DaleK]

Originally Posted by Up North

Dale - "You are the wind beneath my Wings"

Hmmmm. Hero worship tolerated but not encouraged.

Got the pasturing in Kansas all figured out?

[DaleK]

Stanb - it's sandy loam at this end of the field. Mostly fist to head-sized rocks on the hill at the other end, 15 years worth of tenants before us never picked a rock so the first year I was digging up boulders I couldn't lift with 3500 lbs of loader capacity. Landlord promptly took 10% off the rent when he saw me picking rocks for 4 days. The trees on the left-middle of the alfalfa picture are actually an "island" in the middle of a 50 acre field, in the middle of the trees is about 5 acres of bare rock. When Dad was a kid there was a family there that had a barn built on that flat rock, house a little farther to the right. Kids all left for the West and eventually the buildings burnt.

[Up North]

Just giving you a friendly hard time there Dale. Your crops look good.
The wheat in this area has been ready to cut for a few days now. Monsoon rains the last three weeks has the fields too soft to negotiate. A few fields are being cut, but they are fighting mud and making ruts.
To the west of us a lot of wheat has been cut allready. The custom crews are working through that area, some have allready gone through and working their way towards Nebraska.
Wild Rye is the evil that wheat farmers contend with here.

[hintonlady]

OMG, and all this time I thought Sandy Loam was a lady who lived down the road....I kept thinking to myself "everyone keeps talking about this Sandly character but I am yet to meet her"?!?!?!........hmmmmmm

Just kidding, I'm not that bad.